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A storey is a level or floor of a building, and different regions count them differently—for example, North America typically counts the ground level as the first storey, while Europe often counts it as the ground floor and starts numbering from the level above. Understanding how storeys are numbered matters when discussing building heights or specifications, since the same physical level might be called the "5th storey" in one country and the "4th storey" in another.
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- Overview
- Numbering
- Consecutive number floor designations
- European scheme
- Floor at ground level
- First elevation, Europe, Latin America
- First elevation, Spain
- First elevation, Italy
- First elevation, France
- First elevation, Croatia
- North American schemes
- Latin America
- East and Southeast Asian schemes
- Singapore
- Vietnam
- Idiosyncrasies
- Elevator buttons
- European scheme
- North American scheme
- Subterranean and split-level floors
- Other labels
- Room numbering
- Iberia
- See also
- Explanatory notes
- References
- External links
thumb|right|A storey plan (the red floor would be the 5th in North American convention, or 4th in the European convention)
A storey (Commonwealth English) or story (American English), is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation, etc.). Plurals for the word are storeys (UK, CAN) and stories (US).