The Natural Area Code (or Universal Address) is a proprietary 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. NAC code was developed further with the introduction of NACionalizer by A. Faris of First Standards Organisation, ME, which allows the localization of NAC codes for each country or region world-wide. Natural Area Coding الرمز البريدي الطبيعي are abbreviated as NAC and ربط in Arabic.
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