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.
Shule County is located in the southwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, northwest of Kashi region, bordering Jiashi and Yuepu Lake County in the east, Yingjisha County in the south, Aktao County in Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture in the west, and Shufu County in the northwest, facing Kashi City and Shufu County in the north across the Kizil River. Shule County has a total area of 2262.75 square kilometers. Shule County has jurisdiction over 3 towns and 12 townships. Shule Town has Uygur, Han, Hui, Uzbek, Kirgiz, Tajik, Mongolian and other ethnic groups. The county people's government is stationed in Shule town. In 2008, Shule County achieved a GDP of 2.51 billion yuan. There are Zhang Qian Park, Zhang Qian Memorial Hall, Shule History Museum, Science, Technology and Culture Center, Nurlan Garden, Baiguo Ecological Park, Yafuquan Desert Populus euphratica in Shule County.