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NM40

Based in the Highlands and Islands region of Scotland.

NM40

NM40 is within the post town of Isle Of Colonsay, Argyllshire.

The square is within Argyll and Bute council.

The NM40 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 NM40, 197 are land and -97 are sea. Sea squares are disregarded on this site as they contain no land features.

North West NM31
North NM41
North East NM51
South West NR39
South NR49
South East NR59
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CornerLatitudeLongitudeEastingNorthing
South West Corner56.121691-6.194577140000700000
South East Corner56.121691-6.024365150000700000
North West Corner56.216653-6.194577140000710000
North East Corner56.216653-6.024365150000710000

1 KM Squares within the NM40 10 KM Square