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.
Heshui County, which belongs to Qingyang City, Gansu Province, is located in the east of Gansu Province, between longitude 107 °51 & #39;-108 °42 & #39;, latitude 35 °36 & #39;-36 °37 & #39;, Fuxian County, Shaanxi Province in the east, Xifeng District and Qingcheng County in the west, Ningxian County in the south, Huachi County and Zhidan County in Shaanxi Province in the north. The total area is 2941.78 square kilometers. As of 2016, Heshui County has jurisdiction over 5 towns and 7 townships, a total of 5 communities, 80 villages and 498 village groups, with a total population of 178400. There are nine ethnic groups, including Han, Hui, Mongolian, Manchu, Dongxiang, Miao, Zhuang, Tujia and Yugu. It is the famous hometown of Yellow River elephants and ancient stone carvings.