Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality in, and the county seat of, El Paso County, Colorado, United States. It is the largest city in El Paso County, with a population of 478,961 at the 2020 United States Census, a 15.02% increase since 2010. Colorado Springs is the second-most populous city and the most extensive city in the state of Colorado, and the 40th-most populous city in the United States. It is the principal city of the Colorado Springs metropolitan area and the second-most prominent city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. It is located in east-central Colorado, on Fountain Creek, 70 miles (113 km) south of Denver.
Aheqi, Kirgiz language, meaning Bletilla splendens, used to have a large area of Achnatherum splendens beach, hence the name. Aheqi County is a border county located in the hinterland of the southern Tianshan Mountains in the west of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region. it is located in alpine mountains. it is 198km long from east to west, 132km wide from north to south, and covers an area of 16800 square kilometers. it borders Wushi County in the east, Keping County in the southeast, Bachu County in the south and Atushi City in the southwest, and the Kyrgyz Republic in the north and west. The border is 305.3 km long. It has 46 Tongwai mountain passes. The elevation of the county is between 1730 and 5958 meters, and the topography shows the overall characteristics of "two mountains sandwiched with one valley". It is known as "nine mountains, half water and half land". In 2013, the total population of Aheqi County was 34000, including Han.