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.
Xiahe County is a county under the jurisdiction of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province, named after the Daxia River. Xiahe County is located in the northwest of Gannan Prefecture, adjacent to Cooperative City and Luqu County in the east and south, Linxia State and Xunhua County and Tongren County in Qinghai to the north, and Zeku County in Qinghai to the west. By 2016, the resident population of Xiahe County was 89500, of which the urban population was 19596. As of 2018, Xiahe County has jurisdiction over 8 towns, 5 townships and 3 township-level units, and the county government is stationed in Labrang Town. In 2017, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Xiahe County reached 1.558 billion yuan, down 3.6 percent from 2016. Of this total, the completed added value of the primary industry was 514 million yuan, up 6.0% over the same period last year; the completed added value of the secondary industry was 122 million yuan, down 10% from the same period last year; and the tertiary industry completed an increase.