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.
Weining Yi Hui and Miao Autonomous County, which is under the jurisdiction of Guizhou Province, is the largest ethnic autonomous county in Guizhou Province. It is located in the northwest of Guizhou Province, adjoining Yunnan Province in the north, west and south. With an area of 6295 square kilometers, the county government is stationed in Caohai Town. It has jurisdiction over 6 streets, 19 towns, 15 townships and 1 nationality township. In 2016, the resident population of Weining Yi Hui and Miao Autonomous County was 1.2837 million, an increase of 6900 over the end of 2015. The central border of Weining Yi Hui and Miao Autonomous County is open and smooth, surrounded by low, staggered peaks and ravines, and rivers flow, which is the source of the four rivers. It is a subtropical monsoon humid climate with annual sunshine hours of 1812 hours, frost-free period of 180days, annual rainfall of 926mm, small annual temperature difference, large daily temperature difference and warm winter.