World heritage is the common treasure of the whole human, and precious tourism resources, and its spatial distribu-tion feature has an important influence on the pattern of regional tourism.Through applying the spatial statistical analysis tools of GIS software, the author studied the macroscopic regional differentiation of world heritage in China from the scales of whole country, province, south/north, and west/central/east.The results indicated that the distribution of world heritage in China had obvious geo-graphical characteristics, and generally revealed the distribution trend of northeast-southwest.The natural heritage was mainly dis-tributed in the southern regions, especially in Sichuan and Yunnan.The culture heritage was mostly distributed in the eastern re-gions.Beijing had the largest number of culture heritage among Chinese cities.The quantity of culture heritage in the central regions was similar to that in the western regions.
World heritageGISSpatial distributionRegional characteristicsChina
国家科技期刊平台
NSTL
万方数据
维普
