Wensu County
| Wensu County 温宿县 • ئونسۇ ناھىيىسى | |
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.png) Location of Wensu County (red) within Aksu Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Aksu |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 温宿县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 溫宿縣 | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur |
ئونسۇ ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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Wensu County (Chinese: 温宿县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Onsu County (Uyghur: غۇلجا ناھىيىسى ), is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Aksu Prefecture, bordering Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul Region to the northwest. It contains an area of 14,309 km2 (5,525 sq mi). According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 210,000.
The toponym Wensu (温宿) had appeared in historical records of the Western Han Dynasty as one of the 36 states in the Western Regions.[1]
References
- ↑ "新疆各市县名称演变考议" by 贺灵
Coordinates: 41°15′N 80°14′E / 41.250°N 80.233°E
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