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The range-free localization algorithm is the best method to obtain the coordinates of sensor nodes at present. Range-free localization algorithm can be divided into two stages: distance estimation and coordinate calculation. For reduce the error in the distance estimation stage, a node localization algorithm for WSN based on virtual partition and distance correction (VP-DC) is proposed in this paper. In the distance estimation stage, firstly, the distance of each hop on the shortest communication path between the unknown node and the beacon node is calculated with the employment of virtual partition algorithm; then, the length of the shortest communication path is obtained by summing the distance of each hop; finally, the unknown distance between nodes is obtained according to the optimal path search algorithm and the distance correction formula. 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