Due to the regional difference in customer needs,customer preferences of different region are not the same.Therefore,the identification of the relationship between customer preferences and regional characteristics has become the basis for decision-marking of regional management strategies.A framework of regional preference identification based on online product reviews is presented in this paper.Firstly,the product features are extracted from online reviews,and the sentiment polarity of product features is determined according to the emotion dictionary.Then,the product satisfaction is measured based on the feature sentiment.Finally,the hypothesis test method is used to identify the regional differences on customer satisfaction and sentiment polarity of product features.In order to verify the validity of the framework,the automotive product review data from autohome com are utilized for case studies.The experimental results show that customer satisfaction and sentiment polarity of fuel consumption,space,appearance and interior are significantly affected by the regional factors.The relationship between customer satisfaction,sentiment polarity of product features and regional characteristics is established to identify customer preferences in different regions and provide theoretical basis for regional design and marketing strategies of enterprises.