التحليل المكاني لنمط توزيع المراكز الحضرية في محافظة المثنى باستخدام نظم المعلومات الجغرافية GIS

Abstract EN

The research aims to discover the pattern of the spatial distribution of urban centers in Al- Muthanna Governorate and the general trend of this distribution.

In addition, the GIS techniques have been used in order to find out their abilities in explaining the spread of geospatial phenomena.

In the study, the Nearest Neighbor, the Mean Center, the Centre Feature, the standard distance, and the direction of spatial distribution have been employed.

The urban centers in Al-Muthanna Governorate take the Dispersed pattern.

Moreover, the general trend of this distribution is to the north-south.

The study revealed that most of the urban centers spread over an area of about (25%) Which reflects the need to create new urban centers that lead to balanced regional development.