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Lorient South Brittany (Bretagne Sud) Airport Coordinates

BRE, FR · Elevation 49m

Quick answer: Lorient South Brittany (Bretagne Sud) Airport is located at 47.760601, -3.440000 (N, W).

Different tools require different formats — Garmin devices default to DDM, military maps use MGRS, topo maps use UTM, and web apps expect Decimal Degrees. Copy whichever format your device or application needs. Click any format abbreviation to learn how it works.

All Coordinate Formats

DD

Decimal Degrees

47.760601, -3.440000
DMS

Degrees Minutes Seconds

47°45'38.16"N 3°26'24.00"W
DDM

Degrees Decimal Minutes

47°45.6361'N 3°26.4000'W
UTM

Universal Transverse Mercator

30T 467026 5289786
MGRS

Military Grid Reference

30TVT6702689786
Geohash

Geohash Encoding

gbmx9wx1d
Plus Code

Open Location Code

8CVRQH65+99

Map Location

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Antipodal Point

The point on the exact opposite side of Earth from Lorient South Brittany (Bretagne Sud) Airport. If you drilled straight through the planet's center, you would emerge here.

Antipodal coordinates

-47.760601, -3.440000

Hemisphere: S, W

DD

Decimal Degrees

-47.760601, -3.440000
DMS

Degrees Minutes Seconds

47°45'38.16"S 3°26'24.00"W
DDM

Degrees Decimal Minutes

47°45.6361'S 3°26.4000'W
UTM

Universal Transverse Mercator

30G 467026 4710214
MGRS

Military Grid Reference

30GVN6702610214
Geohash

Geohash Encoding

5zt839rn6
Plus Code

Open Location Code

4C4R6HQ5+QQ

MGRS Decoded

MGRS encodes location as a nested hierarchy — zone, band, grid square, and offsets. Here is what each component of 30TVT6702689786 means.

Component Value Meaning
UTM Zone 30 One of 60 vertical slices of Earth (6° wide each). Zone 30 runs -6° to 0° longitude.
Latitude Band T One of 20 horizontal bands (8° tall each), lettered C–X (skipping I and O). Indicates the general latitude region.
100 km Square VT A 100 × 100 km grid square within the zone/band. Column letter V (west–east) and row letter T (south–north).
Easting 67026 Distance east within the 100 km square. 5-digit value = 10 m resolution. Multiply by 1 to get meters.
Northing 89786 Distance north within the 100 km square. Same resolution as easting (10 m).

Geohash Precision

A geohash encodes coordinates by subdividing the Earth into progressively smaller cells. Each extra character roughly halves the cell area. The table below shows Lorient South Brittany (Bretagne Sud) Airport's geohash at every precision level alongside the bounding box each level represents.

Length Geohash Cell Size
1
g
≈ 5,000 × 5,000 km
2
gb
≈ 1,250 × 625 km
3
gbm
≈ 156 × 156 km
4
gbmx
≈ 39 × 20 km
5
gbmx9
≈ 4.9 × 4.9 km
6
gbmx9w
≈ 1.2 km × 610 m
7
gbmx9wx
≈ 153 × 153 m
8
gbmx9wx1
≈ 38 × 19 m
9
gbmx9wx1d
≈ 4.8 × 4.8 m

Precision 9 (highlighted) is the default and provides sub-5-metre accuracy for most applications.

About Lorient South Brittany (Bretagne Sud) Airport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorient_South_Brittany_Airport

Live Converter

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DD

47.760601, -3.440000

DMS

47°45'38.16"N 3°26'24.00"W

DDM

47°45.6361'N 3°26.4000'W

UTM

30T 467026 5289786

MGRS

30TVT6702689786

GH

gbmx9wx1d

OLC

8CVRQH65+99

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