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.
Ying County is located in the north of Shanxi Province and east of Shuozhou City. It covers an area of 1667 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 3 towns and 9 townships with a population of 300000 (2012). The county government is stationed in Jincheng. The plan of the county is parallelogram between 112 °58 east longitude and 113 °37 east longitude and 39 °17 east longitude and 39 °45 'north latitude. It is adjacent to Hunyuan County to the east, Shanyin County to Pingshuo to the west, Huairen County to the north, Fanzhi County and Dai County to the south. It is a continental climate in the north temperate zone, affected by the monsoon, with four distinct seasons, with an average annual temperature of about 7 ℃ and annual rainfall of 360mm. The first frost period is in late September and the frost-free period is 100 to 140 days. There are world-famous wooden pagodas in the north of Yingxian County. Yingxian wooden Pagoda is also called Buddha Palace Temple Sakyamuni Pagoda. Together with the Eiffel Tower and the leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, it is called the three strange towers in the world. twenty