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Wensu County (s=温宿县), also known as Onsu County, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (), is a county in the Xinjiang of China, under the administration of Aksu Prefecture, bordering Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul Region to the northwest. It has an area of .
In Uyghur language, the county is called Aksu Konaxahar (阿克苏阔纳协海尔) meaning 'the old city of Aksu'.
On May 29, 1958, Wensu County was eliminated and its territory made part of Aksu County. In 1962, Wensu County was restored.
In a Radio Free Asia interview, a Han Chinese staffer in the Wensu County local government said that in July 2017, a policy to affix to all knives belonging to Uyghurs was being carried out.
As of March 2018, every cadre in the county was required to spend eight days a month at the home of villagers. (See also Civil Servant-Family Pair Up)
In the late 2010s, Wensu County was the site of vocational education and training centers (also understood as deradicalization centers, re-education camps or concentration camps). According to a Radio Free Asia interview with an officer at the Wensu county police station, as of August 2018, 30,000 persons, or about one in six Uyghurs in the county (approximately 16% of the overall population of the county), were detained in re-education camps.
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| Wensu Town (Wensu Town) | 温宿镇 | ئونسۇ بازىرى | 652922100 | ||||
| Tumxuk Town, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency | 吐木秀克镇 | تۇمشۇق بازىرى | 652922101 | formerly Tumxuk Township (吐木秀克乡) | |||
| Qizil Town | 克孜勒镇 | قىزىل بازىرى | 652922102 | formerly Qizil Township (克孜勒乡) | |||
| Aral Town | 阿热勒镇 | ئارال بازىرى | 652922103 | formerly Aral Township (阿热勒乡) | |||
| Jam Town | 佳木镇 | جام بازىرى | 652922104 | formerly Jam Township (佳木乡) | |||
| Topkhan Town | 托甫汗镇 | توپقان بازىرى | 652922105 | ||||
| Komsumul Town | 共青团镇 | كومسۇمۇل بازىرى | 652922106 | ||||
| Kökyar Town | 柯柯牙镇 | كۆكيار بازىرى | 652922107 | ||||
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| Toxula Township | 托乎拉乡 | توخۇلا يېزىسى | 652922200 | ||||
| Chaghraq Township | 恰格拉克乡 | چاغراق يېزىسى | 652922202 | ||||
| Ishlemchi Township | 依希来木其乡 | ئىشلەمچى يېزىسى | 652922204 | ||||
| Gulawat Township (Gule Awati, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) | 古勒阿瓦提乡 | گۈلئاۋات يېزىسى | 652922206 | ||||
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| Bozdong Kyrgyz Ethnic Township | 博孜墩柯尔克孜族乡 | بوزدۆڭ قىرغىز يېزىسى | 652922207 | (Kyrgyz language) بوزدۅڭ قىرعىز ايىلى Боздөң Кыргыз айылы | |||
, there was about 139,200 acres (919,475 mu) of cultivated land in Onsu.
As of 1999, 76.17% of the population of Wensu County was Uyghur and 21.43% of the population was Han Chinese.
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