page_title: Yurt
section_title: See also
hierarchical_section_title: Yurt / See also
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Yurts in the tourist camp. Mongolia
context_page_description: A traditional yurt or ger is a portable, round tent covered with skins or felt and used as a dwelling by several distinct nomadic groups in the steppes of Central Asia. The structure consists of an angled assembly or latticework of wood or bamboo for walls, a door frame, ribs, and a wheel possibly steam-bent. The roof structure is often self-supporting, but large yurts may have interior posts supporting the crown. The top of the wall of self-supporting yurts is prevented from spreading by means of a tension band which opposes the force of the roof ribs. Modern yurts may be permanently built on a wooden platform; they may use modern materials such as steam-bent wooden framing or metal framing, canvas or tarpaulin, Plexiglas dome, wire rope, or radiant insulation.
context_section_description: Architecture of Mongolia
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  Ger district
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  List of human habitation forms
  Mausoleum of Theodoric
  Tent
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  Vernacular architecture
caption: Yurts in the tourist camp. Mongolia
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