Based in the Highlands and Islands region of Scotland.
The square is within Na h-Eileanan an Iar council.
The NF56 national grid square measures 10 km by 10 km and has an area of 1,000 kilometres squared.
The technical term for a 10 km map square is a Hectad.
When this 10 km square is divided into a grid 10 by 10 it gives the next size of grid square. This unit is called a Monad and measures 1km square. 100 monads fit in a 10km square.
Out of the monads generated from square NF56, 72 are land and 28 are sea. Sea squares are disregarded on this site as they contain no land features.
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| Corner | Latitude | Longitude | Easting | Northing |
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| South West Corner | 57.494445 | -7.859310 | 50000 | 860000 |
| South East Corner | 57.494445 | -7.678935 | 60000 | 860000 |
| North West Corner | 57.591435 | -7.859310 | 50000 | 870000 |
| North East Corner | 57.591435 | -7.678935 | 60000 | 870000 |