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What houses do people in Southeast Asia live in?

1. Southeast Asia has a tropical rain forest climate, with high temperature and rainy all the year round, and the precipitation is about 2000mm, so more "diaojiaolou" is built.

Diaojiaolou: The most basic feature is that the main house is built on the ground. The wing is connected with the main house except one side leaning on the ground, and the other three sides are supported by pillars. Diaojiaolou has many advantages. Hanging on the ground is ventilated and dry, which can prevent poisonous snakes and wild animals, and sundries can be placed under the floor. Diaolou also has distinctive national characteristics. Elegant "silk eaves" and wide "walking columns" make the diaojiao building unique. Compared with "Gan Lan", this diaojiao building successfully got rid of the primitive and has a higher cultural level, so it is called the "living fossil" of Bachu culture.

Or "high house"

It is a "dry column" residence in tropical and subtropical areas (commonly known as "high-legged house"). Very common. Since ancient times, high-rise residential buildings have been very common in subtropical areas with humid climate and abundant rainfall. General high-rise residential buildings are not multi-storey buildings, but are divided into upper and lower floors. At first, high-rise residential buildings were built of bamboo, and then gradually developed into wooden houses. The house is occupied upstairs, but there is no wall downstairs. Only a few wooden stakes are used to place furniture and other items.

Its advantages are easy ventilation, cool and dry; The roof slope of high-rise residence is large, which is beneficial to the rapid pouring of rain and will not be submerged by rain. It can also prevent wild animals.

2. Most parts of North Africa have a tropical arid and semi-arid climate, that is, a tropical desert climate, which is hot and dry all year round, with annual precipitation less than 200mm, hot days and cool nights, and the daily climate changes widely. Mostly earth houses or stone houses.