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Rạch Giá

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Grid Point Code for Rạch Giá
With a code
#K6RD0-25CJL
Said aloud
Rạch Giá 25CJL

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Rạch Giá is #K6RD0-25CJL. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.37 m east to west, centred on 10°00'44.85"N, 105°04'51.27"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

The point used is the one GeoNames records for Rạch Giá, near its centre.

Code
#K6RD0-25CJL
With a check character
#K6RD0-25CJL*3
Short form
25CJL
Cell centre
10.012458, 105.080909
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.37 m
Region
An Giang
Country
Vietnam
Population
459,860

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #K6RD0-25CJL. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in An Giang

Rạch Giá 25CJL: 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 5.3 km east or west of Rạch Giá. 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

#K6RD0-25CJL*3. 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 52.6 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. K6RDMetropolitan area40 km by 52.6 km
  2. K6RD0District8 km by 10.5 km
  3. K6RD02Suburb1.6 km by 2.1 km
  4. K6RD025A few streets320 m by 421 m
  5. K6RD025CBuilding64 m by 84.2 m
  6. K6RD025CJEntrance12.8 m by 16.8 m
  7. K6RD025CJLDoorway2.56 m by 3.37 m

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