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.
Xiangyun County is one of the counties under the jurisdiction of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province. it is located in the west-central part of Yunnan Province, bordering Dayao, Yao'an and Nanhua counties in the east, Midu County in the south, Dali City in the west and Binchuan County in the north. Xiangyun is one of the counties with earlier development and better economic development in Yunnan. it has been the political, economic and cultural center of northwest Yunnan for a long time. The name of Yunnan Province comes from Yunan County, which is located in Xiangyun in history, so Xiangyun is known as "the hometown of colorful clouds" and "the source of Yunnan". Xiangyun County is the throat of traffic in western Yunnan, the necessary place leading to the eight prefectures in western Yunnan, and the eastern gate of Dali Prefecture, only 282 kilometers away from Kunming and 48 kilometers to Dali Airport. Xiangyun County covers an area of 2425 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 8 towns, 1 township and 1 nationality township. The population of Xiangyun County at the end of 2012 is