Abstract:
Using Google Earth to locate precisely the geographical location of 591 provincial traditional villages in Henan Province, the spatial correlation analysis of the social and natural factors, such as topography, population, economy, transportation network, etc. in Henan Province was conducted combining with ArcGIS 10.2 and SPSS 19.0. The results show that the traditional villages of Henan Province present the characteristics of the whole decentralized and local settlement in the spatial distribution, and there are two high density cores located in Pingdingshan and Anyang City. River system, traffic and population are the main factors affecting the distribution of traditional villages which are built along river, and distributed in the area of where the road traffic developed and the population is relatively sparse. The elevation, economy and urbanization rate are also the important factors affecting the development traditional villages, and the traditional villages are mostly distributed in the areas with low topography, medium level of economic development and urbanization rate. The climate is the reference factor of the traditional village′s foothold, whereas the precipitation and the temperature are not obvious with the traditional villages′ distribution.