Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs is a Hame Rule Municipality that is the coonty seat an maist populous ceety o El Paso Coonty, Colorado, Unitit States. Colorado Springs is locatit in the Sooth Central portion o Central Colorado. It is situatit on Fountain Creek an is locatit 61 mile (98 km) sooth o the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. At 6,035 feet (1839 m) the ceety sits ower ane mile (1.6 km) abuin sea level, though some auries o the ceety are significantly heicher. Colorado Springs is situatit near the base o ane o the maist famous American muntains, Pikes Peak, at the eastren edge o the soothren Rocky Muntains.
Wi an estimatit population of 414,358 in 2009,[1] it is the seicont maist populous ceety in the state o Colorado, ahint Denver, an the 46t maist populous ceety in the Unitit States,[2] while the Colorado Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area haed an estimatit population o 626,227.[3] The ceety covers 186.1 square miles (482 km2), makin it Colorado's lairgest ceety in aurie. Colorado Springs wis selectit as the No. 1 Best Big Ceety in "Best Places to Live" bi Money magazine in 2006,[4] an placed number ane in Outside's 2009 leet o Americae's Best Ceeties.[5]
Sister ceeties
eeditSister ceeties o Colorado Springs include:
- Fujiyoshida, Japan (1962)
- Kaohsiung, Taiwan (1983)
- Smolensk, Roushie (1993)
- Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (1994)
- Nuevo Casas Grandes, Mexico (1996)
- Bankstoun, New Sooth Wales, Australie (1999)
References
eedit- ↑ "Here is some interesting information about the demographics of the City of Colorado Springs". City of Colorado Springs. Archived frae the original on 25 December 2010. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
- ↑ "What is Colorado Springs' population". 18 Julie 2009. Archived frae the original on 25 December 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
- ↑ "Tables". U.S. Census bureau. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
- ↑ "10 Best Big Cities". CNNMoney.com. 30 September 2009. Retrieved 5 October 2009.
- ↑ "Best Towns 2009 | Outside Online". OutsideOnline.com. Archived frae the original on 24 Mey 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2009.
- ↑ Nathaniel, Daniel (19 Mairch 2007), "Manas Airmen reunite sister cities Bishkek, Colorado Springs", Air Force Link, United States: Department of Defense, archived frae the original on 18 Julie 2012, retrieved 18 October 2007
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