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.
Dari County, under the jurisdiction of Guoluo Prefecture, Qinghai Province, is located in the southeast of Qinghai Province and in the south of Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture at the junction of Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces. It is bordered by Jiuzhi County in the east, Banma County in the southeast, Seda County in Sichuan Province in the south, Shiqu County in Sichuan Province in the southwest, Maduo County in the northwest, and Maqin and Gande counties in the north across the Yellow River. The county has a total area of 16466 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 9 townships, 1 town, 33 animal husbandry committees, 109 animal husbandry cooperatives and 1 poverty alleviation association, with a total population of more than 30, 000 people (2013). Dari County, with an average elevation of more than 4200 meters above sea level, belongs to an alpine and semi-humid climate, and is one of the natural ecological protection and management areas of the "three Rivers Source". At the same time, it is also an important commodity in Guoluo Prefecture, second only to the location of the prefecture (Dawu), the distribution center of Chinese and Tibetan medicinal materials and Qingchuan Jiao.