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.
Tekes County, a county under the jurisdiction of Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is located in the eastern part of the Tex Valley in the upper reaches of the Yili River. The county seat is 116 kilometers away from Yining City and 815 kilometers away from Urumqi. It is bordered by Gongliu County in the east and Gongliu County in the east, Hejing County in the east, Zhaosu County in the west, Baicheng County in the south and Chabuchal County in the north. The topography of the county is high from north to south and low from east to west, with Tianshan in the south, Tianshan in the north, and the Turks valley in the middle, tilting from west to east. The Tex River runs through the whole territory from west to east. Rich in mineral resources. The county has a total area of 8352 square kilometers and now has jurisdiction over 1 town, 7 townships, 6 farms and 1 beekeeping farm. The county is home to the Xinjiang military region Horse Farm, the 78th Regiment of the fourth Agricultural Division and Tianxi Bureau Tex Forest Farm. The total population in 2013 is 172000.