Present paper deals with the application of air photo-analysis and interpretation of the soils in the hilly region with more complex landforms in combination with detailed soil survey following reconnaissance survey along selected lines in model aeras with typical landforms.The qualitative features of soils and the factors interfering soil interpretation were analysed by stereoscopy.The soils were discriminated by landforms,rock types,vegetations (indicator plants),and land use patterns in combination with analysis of other envionmental conditaons.The soils could be discriminated from the level of great group to that of genus.The results obtained showed that the qualitative interpretation accuracies were 98.6%,92.5%,and 86.3% respectively at the level of great group,subgroup,and genus.The quantitative accuracy (of bounderies between aeras) was 75.3%.It amounted to 86.6%,if the areas of natural and cultivated purple soils which were difficult to discriminate were deducted.