Natural Area Code

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The Natural Area Code, or Universal Address, is a proprietary^[1] geocode system for identifying an area anywhere on the Earth, or a volume of space anywhere around the Earth. The use of thirty alphanumeric characters instead of only ten digits makes a NAC shorter than its numerical latitude/longitude equivalent.