Stina Mårtensson (3 June 1882 – 1962) was a

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missionary. She served with the Swedish Missionary Society in

Chinese Turkestan Chinese Turkestan or Chinese Turkistan, is a geographical term or historical region corresponding to the region of the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang (south of the Tian Shan mountain range) or Xinjiang as a whole which was under the rule of ...

(present day Xinjiang) and

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. Mårtensson was born in

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. She worked as a nurse

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Yarkand Yarkant County,, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency also Shache County,, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency also SASM/GNC ro ...

and

Kashgar Kashgar () or Kashi ( zh, c=喀什) is a city in the Tarim Basin region of southern Xinjiang, China. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, located near the country's border with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. For over 2,000 years, Kashgar ...

for more than 22 years in various periods during the years 1907–1936. In the 1930s, she worked with other missionaries to offer vocational training in farmwork.Equmeniakyrkan Church website, ''Mission and Revolution; Chapter V, “Fields Whitening to Harvest.” 1924 - 1932.'', page 11
/ref> From 1939 until 1946 she worked in

. She died in

in 1962 at the age of 80.

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Swedish Protestant missionaries Protestant missionaries in China Christian medical missionaries Christian missionaries in Central Asia 1882 births 1962 deaths Female Christian missionaries Swedish midwives Protestant missionaries in India Swedish expatriates in China Swedish expatriates in India People from Ovanåker Municipality {{Sweden-bio-stub

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