gers
Across town, a quarter of Ulan Bator's population live in traditional circular felt tents, known as gers, or in rudimentary concrete houses, jammed together onto hillsides.
Gers are constructed from latticework wall sections covered with a kind of felt called "tuurga." Mongolians have called themselves "esgii tuurgatan," or "people of the felt walls." A standard ger is about 17 feet across.
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