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.
Hot Spring County, which belongs to Bortala Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is located in the northwest of Xinjiang, the upper reaches of Bortala River, the northern foot of the western part of Tianshan and the western margin of Junggar Basin. It is bordered by Bole to the east, Zhentao Mountain to the south and Huocheng County to the south, and Kazakhstan to the west and north to Kongguoro Obo Mountain and the western part of Alatao Mountain respectively. The county is 139.4 km long from east to west and 64.8km wide from north to south. The area of arable land is 490000 mu, the area of grassland is 6.19 million mu and the forest is 551000 mu. The climate here is warm in winter and cool in summer, with an annual average temperature of 3.6 degrees Celsius. The total annual diameter of surface water is 800 million cubic meters, the groundwater reserves are 310 million cubic meters, and the theoretical water energy reserves are 279000 kilowatts. The population in 2012 was 74600. 2018