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.
Kashgar, which belongs to the Kashgar region of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is located in the southwest edge of Xinjiang, west of the Tarim Basin, east of the Taklimakan Desert, south of the Karakoram Mountains and Ali region of Tibet, and west of the Pamir Plateau. It is the westernmost border city in China and the resident of the administrative office of Kashgar region. Kashgar covers an area of 1056.8 square kilometers and has a population of 627900 (2016). It has jurisdiction over 6 streets, 2 towns and 9 townships. Kashgar is the political, economic, cultural and transportation center of southern Xinjiang, and the largest distribution center of agricultural and animal husbandry products. It is also an important commercial port on the ancient Silk Road, the throat hub of the transportation between the East and the West, and an important intersection of economy, culture and civilization between the East and the West. In December 1986, Kashgar was listed as a famous historical and cultural city in China. In May 2004, Kashgar was named Zhongzhong.