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.
Keping County, in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, Keping was called Keping by the Han nationality and Ke'erping in Uygur language. It was not until 1903 when Fenfangxian was established as Keping, and it has been used ever since. Keping, which is said to mean "flood" or "Diwo Zi". Keping County is located in southern Xinjiang, the westernmost end of Aksu area, the southern foot of Altag Mountains, a branch of Tianshan Mountains, and the northern margin of Tarim Basin. The total area of the county is 12047 square kilometers, of which the mountain area is 6393 square kilometers, accounting for 53% of the total area of the county. The county has jurisdiction over one town and four townships, with a total population of 49000 in 2013. In 2012, the GDP of Keping County reached 672 million yuan, an increase of 21.8% over the same period in 2011.