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.
Tongxin County is located in the central and southern part of Ningxia Hui Autonomous region, under the jurisdiction of Wuzhong City. It is bordered by Yanchi County in the east and Huanxian County in Qingyang City, Gansu Province in the east, Yuanzhou District in Guyuan City in the south, Shapotou District, Zhongning County and Haiyuan County in Zhongwei City in the west, and Hongsibao District in Wuzhong City in the north. It is located on the Loess Plateau in the south of Ordos platform and is high in the south and low in the north. There are mainly five types of landforms, such as mountains, loess hills, river valleys and desert lands, with complex topography and crisscross distribution of mountains and rivers. There are Luoshan, Miboshan, Madashan, Laoye Mountain, Qinglong Mountain, Yaoshan and so on, all of which belong to Liupanshan system. In March 2019, it was listed as the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization district and county list.