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Denver (/ˈdɛnvər/) is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is the principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the first city of the Front Range Urban Corridor.

Denver is located in the Western United States, in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Its downtown district is immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, approximately 12 miles (19 kilometres) east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is named after James W. Denver, a governor of the Kansas Territory. It is nicknamed the Mile High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile (5280 feet or 1609.344 meters) above sea level.[a] The 105th meridian west of Greenwich, the longitudinal reference for the Mountain Time Zone, passes directly through Denver Union Station.

Denver is ranked as a Beta world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. The 10-county Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 2,963,821 at the 2020 United States census, making it the 19th most populous U.S. metropolitan statistical area. The 12-county Denver-Aurora, CO Combined Statistical Area had a population of 3,623,560 at the 2020 United States census, making it the 17th most populous U.S. primary statistical area. Denver is the most populous city of the 18-county Front Range Urban Corridor, an oblong urban region stretching across two states with a population of 5,055,344 at the 2020 United States Census. Its metropolitan area is the most populous metropolitan area within a 560-mile (900 km) radius and the second most populous city in the Mountain West after Phoenix, Arizona. In 2016, it was named the best place to live in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.

Gansu, referred to as "Gan" or "long", is the provincial administrative region of the people's Republic of China and the capital of Lanzhou. It is located in northwest China, connecting Shaanxi to the east, Xinjiang to the west, Sichuan and Qinghai to the south, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia to the north, and Mongolia to the northwest. It is between 32 °11 miles north latitude 42 °57 miles north and 92 degrees 13 miles east longitude, covering a total area of 425800 square kilometers. The topography of Gansu is long and narrow, with complex and diverse landforms, including mountains, plateaus, flat rivers, river valleys, deserts and Gobi, surrounded by mountains and mountains, and the terrain inclines from southwest to northeast. Gansu is located in the confluence of the Loess Plateau, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Inner Mongolia Plateau. The climate types from south to north include subtropical monsoon climate, temperate monsoon climate, temperate continental arid climate and plateau.
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