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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.

Leshan, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province, known as Jiazhou in ancient times, has the reputation of "Begonia fragrant country". Located in the middle of Sichuan Province, southwest of Sichuan Basin, the terrain is high in the southwest and low in the northeast, belonging to the subtropical climatic zone. Leshan is an important industrial city in Sichuan Province, a regional central city in the south of Chengdu Economic Zone, an important hub city, an important traffic node and port city in Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration. Chengdu-Kunming Railway and Chengdu-Guizhou high-speed railway run through the whole territory. Leshan is a famous national historical and cultural city, the first batch of national open cities, national greening model cities, Chinese excellent tourist cities, national garden cities and national sanitary cities. Leshan has three world-class heritage sites-the World Natural and Cultural Heritage Mount Emei and Leshan Giant Buddha, the World Irrigation Engineering Heritage Dongfengyan, 15 scenic spots above the national 4A level, and 35 national A-level scenic spots. Cut off
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