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.
Yining County, which belongs to Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is located in the west of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, the western part of Tianshan Mountain and the middle of Yili River Valley. The geographical coordinates are 81 °13 °40 "- 82 °42" 20 "east longitude and 43 °35" 10 "- 44 °29" 30 "north latitude. The county has the longest east-west distance of 116km and the widest north-south distance of 95 km, with a total area of 6152.55 square kilometers. by the end of 2017, Yining County has jurisdiction over 8 towns and 10 townships, as well as 3 farm-level units with a total population of 430690. Yining County, formerly known as Ningyuan County, was founded in the 14th year of Guang Xu in the Qing Dynasty (1888). It got its name from the county governance of Ningyuan. In 1913, it was changed to Yining County and got its name from the first words Yili and Ningyuan.