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Linking gene expression of cells with their spatial distribution is essential for better understanding of tissue microenvironment and biological progress. However, effectively combining gene expression data with spatial information to identify spatial domains remains challenging. Results: To deal with the above issue, in this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised learning framework named STMGCN for identifying spatial domains using multi-view graph convolution networks (MGCNs). Specifically, to fully exploit spatial information, we first construct multiple neighbor graphs (views) with different similarity measures based on the spatial coordinates. Then, STMGCN learns multiple view-specific embeddings by combining gene expressions with each neighbor graph through graph convolution networks. Finally, to capture the importance of different graphs, we further introduce an attention mechanism to adaptively fuse view-specific embeddings and thus derive the final spot embedding. STMGCN allows for the effective utilization of spatial context to enhance the expressive power of the latent embeddings with multiple graph convolutions. We apply STMGCN on two simulation datasets and five real spatial transcriptomics datasets with different resolutions across distinct platforms. The experimental results demonstrate that STMGCN obtains competitive results in spatial domain identification compared with five state-of-the-art methods, including spatial and non-spatial alternatives. Besides, STMGCN can detect spatially variable genes with enriched expression patterns in the identified domains. 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