Western-style toilets

Sit-down bathroom fixtures

Western-style toilets are flush toilets with a raised seat designed for sitting, as opposed to squat toilets that require crouching over a floor-level basin.

The term appears most often in travel contexts and international signage, distinguishing the seated design common in Europe and the Americas from alternatives found elsewhere: The hostel had both squat and Western-style toilets.

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toilet design/posture

Western-style toiletssquat toilets

Floor-level toilet basins

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Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G