关键词: 广东地名, GIS技术, 景观特征, 地理区划

Abstract: Place names are certain exclusive names of the physical or humanic geographic entities of specific space locations given by people and they are important signs through which the mankind knows the nature and human activities. As the language fossils, geographic names have the instructive functions to different historical periods and different regional social cultures. Located in the southern border area of China, Guangdong province which is affected by Central Plains and overseas culture deeply at the same time has its own peculiar development courses. This article adopts the GIS technology and establishes a Guangdong geographic name Yuan database (GEODATABASE) on the mathematical statistic basis. It also deals with the databases to output the straight side topic maps and other special maps which needs other special maps through ARCGIS GEOPROCESSING,SPACIAL STATISTICS TOOLBOX and ANALYSIS TOOLBOX according to the attribute essential factors as well as carries on dividing and color chromatic aberration processing. Finally, the place name landscapes of Guangdong demonstrate the peculiar geographical environment characteristics of the south of the Five Ridges and historical development characteristics: no harmoniousness in space distribution, varieties of common names and proper names, distributing concentration of neat head(qitou) place-names which have many ethnicities and dialects. The article also carries on geographical zoning on the basis of counting, and divides the geographic names Guangdong province into four big areas according to the types, namely the Hakkas(Kejia), the lucky man(Fulao), the Zhuang language(Zhuangyu) and the Cantonese(Yueyu) geographic name area, and they also respectively displays the core-edge proliferation pattern in space.

Key words: place names in Guangdong province, GIS technology, landscape characteristics, geographical zonation