Colorado Springs
Also known as Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, Olympic City USA
city in and county seat of El Paso County, Colorado, United States
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Colorado Springs is a city in Colorado that serves as the county seat of El Paso County. It is the second-largest city in Colorado and is known for its proximity to natural attractions like Pikes Peak and the Garden of the Gods.
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- Official website
- coloradosprings.gov
- Image
- CC COSPRINGS.jpg
- Dialing code
- 719
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Colorado Springs is a home rule city that is the county seat of, and the most populous city in, El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The city had a population of 478,961 at the 2020 census, a 15.02% increase since 2010. Colorado Springs is the second-most populous city and most extensive city by area 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, which had 755,105 residents in 2020, 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.
At 6,035 feet (1,839 m), the city stands over 1 mile (1.6 km) above sea level. It is near the base of Pikes Peak, which rises 14,115 feet (4,302.31 m) above sea level on the eastern edge of the Southern Rocky Mountains. The city is the largest city north of Mexico above 6,000 feet (1,800 m) in elevation.