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.
Horgos, which belongs to Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is located in the western border of China, bordering Kazakhstan, five countries of Central Asia in the west and inland provinces and cities in the east. It is the end of National Highway 312 and Lianhuo Expressway. It is 90km away from Yining, the capital of Yili Prefecture, 670km from Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, 378km away from the central city of Central Asia and Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan. The area within the radius of 1000 km is the densely populated area, economically developed area and market center of Central Asia. As of 2016, Horgos has jurisdiction over four subdistrict offices, one ethnic township, one pasture and two bingtuan farms. At the end of 2015, the total population of permanent residents in the city (including bingtuan) was 87200. The area is 1908.