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Wensu County

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Country
  
China

Time zone
  
China Standard (UTC+8)

Prefecture-level division
  
Aksu Prefecture

Prefecture-level divisions
  
Aksu Prefecture

Province
  
Xinjiang

Wensu County

The Wensu (Onsu) County (Chinese: 温宿县, Uyghur: ئونسۇ ناھىيىسى, Онсу Наһийиси‎, ULY: Onsu Nahiyisi, UYY: Onsu Nah̡iyisi?) is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Aksu Prefecture. It contains an area of 14,309 km2. According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 210,000.

Map of Wensu, Aksu, Xinjiang, China

The toponym Wensu (温宿) had appeared in historical records of the Western Han Dynasty of China as one of the 36 states in the Western Regions.

References

Wensu County Wikipedia