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.
Cuoqin County is a county in the southeast of Ali region of Tibet Autonomous region, 1079 kilometers away from Lhasa. The geographical coordinates are 31 °00' in latitude 30 °51 in north and 85 °19 in longitude 85 °09 in east longitude. There are many lakes and abundant water sources in the territory. "Cuoqin" means "Great Lake" in Tibetan and gets its name from the Great Saline Lake, which is located more than 10 kilometers east of the county. With an average elevation of more than 4700 meters, it is one of the few high-altitude counties. The government is stationed in Mendong village, Cuoqin town. The territory covers an area of 22000 square kilometers with a total population of 13200 (2013). The second lane of the Singapore-Tibet Highway is passed. Cuoqin County is rich in animal product resources and is one of the pure animal husbandry counties in Tibet and Ali region. The permanent residents are all Tibetans and believe in the Bai religion in Tibetan missionaries, and a small number of them