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		faithful_droog on May 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses Japanese addresses are also unusual in that they generally don't involve streets (or street numbering) at all but are instead based around city districts and blocks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system

kijin on May 30, 2013 [–]

Korean addresses are similar, but they're slowly transitioning to an American-style addressing system that uses street numbers and street names.

I guess the district-based addressing system made a lot of sense back when people just built houses in random locations around the town center.

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