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The CN Tower is at M5V2T6 - 6 chars

This is unique within Canada and the physical area is small enough to be sufficiently useful for navigation. Add country code and it gets you to 9 or 10 chars.

UK has similarly useful alphanumeric postcodes and specifying them for satnav is the norm.



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