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.
Minle County, which belongs to Zhangye City, Gansu Province, is located at the northern foot of Qilian Mountain, the middle of Hexi Corridor, the southeast of Zhangye City, bordering Shandan and Yongchang counties in the east, Qilian County and Menyuan County in Qinghai Province in the south, Yugu Autonomous County in Sunan in the southwest, and Gansu District in Zhangye City in the west and northwest. The geographical coordinates are between 100 °22 °59 "~ 101 °13 °9" east longitude and 37 °56'19 "~ 38 °48" 17 "north latitude. It is 73.8km wide from east to west and 95.4km long from north to south, with a total area of 3678 square kilometers (2013). With a population of 230800 (2013), Minle County achieved a GDP of 1.658 billion yuan in 2007. Minle County has Haichao Lake Ecological Resort, Bandukou Ecological Leisure Tourism area and Nuniu.