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Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park

near Xuân SơnQuảng BìnhVietnam

Grid Point Code for Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park
With a code
#K606N-GGR0W
Said aloud
Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park GGR0W

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park is #K606N-GGR0W. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.26 m east to west, centred on 17°32'00.01"N, 106°08'59.99"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

What it is
National park in Vietnam
Code
#K606N-GGR0W
With a check character
#K606N-GGR0W*5
Short form
GGR0W
Cell centre
17.533336, 106.149996
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.26 m
Region
Quảng Bình
Country
Vietnam

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #K606N-GGR0W. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Quảng Bình

Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park GGR0W: a name both people know, then the last five characters. They give back the exact code for anywhere within 4.0 km north or south and 5.1 km east or west of Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park. Further away the same five name somewhere else, which is why the whole code is what goes on a sign.

Copied by hand, or read over a phone

#K606N-GGR0W*5. The character on the end catches any single mistyped symbol and any two neighbours swapped.

As a link or a square code

Open it on the map, move to the exact door, and add directions if the code needs help: "blue gate, second floor". The link and the square code carry them. Nothing is kept on this site.

From the city to the door

The first four characters name a cell about 40 km by 51 km here. Each one after that picks one of 25 inside the last, so the whole ten name a spot about the size of a doorway.

  1. K606Metropolitan area40 km by 51 km
  2. K606NDistrict8 km by 10.2 km
  3. K606NGSuburb1.6 km by 2.04 km
  4. K606NGGA few streets320 m by 408 m
  5. K606NGGRBuilding64 m by 81.5 m
  6. K606NGGR0Entrance12.8 m by 16.3 m
  7. K606NGGR0WDoorway2.56 m by 3.26 m

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