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.
Kuitun, founded in 1975, is a county-level city directly under the Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of Yili, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region. It is located in the middle part of the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain, southwest of Junggar Basin, bordering Shawan County in Tacheng area in the east, Wusu City in Tacheng area in the west, Karamay District in the north and Dushanzi District in Karamay City in the south. The administrative district covers an area of 1109.89 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over five streets and one agricultural township. The city name means "cold" in Heshuote Mongolian. Kuitun is a new industrial and commercial city in northwest China. At the end of 2016, the total number of urban households was 60, 000, with a total population of 158700, an increase of 1100 over the previous year. Kuitun's economy is the main agricultural and pastoral area and grain, oil and cotton base in Xinjiang. The second Eurasian Continental Bridge runs through Kuitun. 2018