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.
Shache is located in the southwestern border of Xinjiang, the northern foot of the Kunlun Mountains, the southern edge of the Pamir Plateau, the middle and upper reaches of the Yeerqiang River alluvial fan plain between the Taklimakan Desert and Buguri Desert, with a total area of 9037 square kilometers. it has jurisdiction over 32 townships (districts and streets), 485 administrative villages and 73 communities, with a registered population of 870000. There are more than 20 ethnic groups, including Uygur, Han, Hui and Tajik, and ethnic minorities account for 96.3% of the total population. Shache has a history of more than 3000 years. It has become a famous tribal country in the Western region for several times, successively known as Shache, Qusha and Yeerqiang Khanate, which is the focal point of the ancient Silk Road and an important place for military garrison. It is a famous historical and cultural city with the integration of humanistic landscape and natural landscape, Central Asian culture and Western culture.