Yurt

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Yurt in the Gobi desert, Mongolia.

Round white felt tents called gers, with decorative orange doors, stand on open grassland under a partly cloudy sky in Mongolia.

White yurts and grazing livestock scattered across a grassy plain in the Orkhon Valley, Mongolia, with rocky hills and a river in the background.

A Kazak yurt with a patterned rug hanging at its entrance stands on rocky ground in front of snow-capped peaks in the Pamir Mountains, Xinjiang, China.

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Article title updated for style.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Nov 07, 2026
	Modified link of Web site: IOPscience - Journal of Physics: Conference Series - Thermal insulation performance investigation of an experimental low-tech yurt building envelope.	Emily Rodriguez	Nov 06, 2026
	Add new Web site: IOPscience - Journal of Physics: Conference Series - Thermal insulation performance investigation of an experimental low-tech yurt building envelope.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 19, 2026
	Add new Web site: CORE - A Review and Systemization of the traditional Mongolian Yurt (Ger) (PDF).	Grace Young	Feb 10, 2026
	Add new Web site: ABC listen - Life Matters - The Yurt Farm.	Emily Rodriguez	Oct 06, 2025
	Add new Web site: Education Resources Information Center - What the Yurt? Round Teaching and Architecture as Pedagogy (PDF).	Yamini Chauhan	Feb 07, 2025
	Add new Web site: Complutense University of Madrid - A Semiotic Analysis of the Yurt, Clothing and Food Eating Habits in Kazakh Traditional Cultures.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 29, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - On the Etymology, Historical Roots and Meanings of the Yurt Homeland (PDF).	Gloria Lotha	Jun 28, 2024
	Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - From Nomads to Glampers: The History of the Yurt.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 24, 2023
	Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Yurt.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 16, 2023
	Add new Web site: National geographic - Yurt.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 23, 2015
	Add new Web site: ChinaCulture.org - Mongolian Yurts.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 23, 2015
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Nov 12, 2004
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998