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.
Maoxian is a county under the jurisdiction of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province. it is located in the southwest of Sichuan Province and on the southeast edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the southeast of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. The geographical coordinates are longitude 102 °56 "104 °10" east and latitude 31 °25 "32 °16". It spans the alpine valleys of the upper reaches of the Minjiang River and the Fujiang River, 116.62 kilometers from east to west, 93.73 kilometers from north to south, and an area of 3903.28 square kilometers. As of 2012, Maoxian has jurisdiction over 3 towns and 18 townships, a total of 149 administrative villages and 3 neighborhood committees, with a total population of about 110000. It is the largest Qiang inhabited county in China. In addition to the Qiang nationality, 17 ethnic groups such as Han, Tibetan and Hui also live in the territory. On July 31, 2018, the Sichuan Provincial Government approved the withdrawal of Maoxian from the poverty-stricken county preface.