Onsu County
Wensu, Kona Shahr, Wensuh | |
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 Aerial view of Onsu County in 2024 | |
.png) Location of Wensu County (red) within Aksu Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
  Onsu County Location of the seat  Onsu County Onsu County (China) | |
| Coordinates: 41°15′N 80°14′E / 41.250°N 80.233°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Xinjiang |
| Prefecture | Aksu |
| County seat | Onsu Town (Wensu) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 14,335.16 km2 (5,534.84 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 266,002 |
| • Density | 19/km2 (48/sq mi) |
| Ethnic groups | |
| • Major ethnic groups | Uyghur[2] |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard[a]) |
| Postal code | 843100 |
| Website | www |
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | ئونسۇ ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 温宿县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 溫宿縣 | ||||||||||
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Onsu County[2][3][4][5][6] (Uyghur: ئونسۇ ناھىيىسى[7]) and from Mandarin Chinese Wensu County (Chinese: 温宿县), is a county in the Xinjiang Uygur 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).
- ^ Xinjiang: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
- ^ a b Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes (31 August 2018). "One in Six Uyghurs Held in Political 'Re-Education Camps' in Xinjiang's Onsu County". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
Onsu (in Chinese, Wensu) county, in the XUAR's Aksu (Akesu) prefecture is home to around 230,000 people, according to the county government's website. Some 180,000 of them are members of minority groups—the largest of which is Uyghurs.
- ^ Ildikó Bellér-Hann; M. Cristina Cesàro; Rachel Harris; Joanne Smith Finley, eds. (2007). Situating the Uyghurs Between China and Central Asia. Ashgate Publishing. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-7546-7041-4 – via Google Books.
Qirmish Ata Mazar is located in a mountain valley 61 km west of Onsu county town, in Aqsu prefecture.
- ^ Missall, Siegmund; Abliz, Abdulla; Halik, Ümüt; Thevs, Niels; Welp, Martin (2018). "Trading Natural Riparian Forests for Urban Shelterbelt Plantations—A Sustainability Assessment of the Kökyar Protection Forest in NW China". Water. 10 (3): 343. doi:10.3390/w10030343.
Due to its location on the Aksu River, Aksu is water-rich, which allowed for the development of irrigation agriculture, forming a huge river oasis in the west, east and south of Aksu City (c. 1000 km2, including Awat and Onsu County) [43].
- ^ 106-1 Hearing: Human Rights In China And Tibet, March 2, 2000. U.S. Government Printing Office. 2000. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-16-060826-1 – via Google Books.
Ablikim Abdiryim was born on 12 November 1973 in Onsu County of Aksu.
- ^ Onsu (Variant – V) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ^ شىنجاڭنىڭ توردا نام چىقارغان بۇ جايلىرىنىڭ گۈزەل مەنزىرىسىنى كۆرۈشنىڭ ياخشى پەيتىنى قولدىن بەرمەڭ. ﺷﯩﻨﺠﺎﯓ ﻛﯘﺋﯧﻨﻠﯘﻥ ﺗﻮﺭﻯ (in Uyghur). 8 April 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
ئونسۇ ناھىيىسى
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