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.
Zepu County, the abbreviation of "Zepuleshan", gets its name from Zele Kushan River. Zeplesan, Tajik, means "river of gold". The river has sand gold, hence its name. Zep, also known as Boskamu, is the pronunciation of "Persian Tikan" in Uyghur language, meaning "fertile land". Belongs to the Kashgar region of Xinjiang, located in the southwest of Xinjiang, the northern foot of Kunlun Mountains, the eastern side of Karakoram Mountains, the western edge of the Taklimakan Desert. It is bounded by the Yeerqiang River in the west, Shache County in the west, Yecheng County in the east and southeast, and Yecheng County in the southwest. It covers an area of 999.96 square kilometers with a population of 200000. Zepu County is 1215-1490 meters above sea level and belongs to warm temperate continental arid climate. The annual average temperature is 11.4 ℃, the extreme maximum temperature is 39.5 ℃, and the extreme minimum temperature is-2.