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El Paso (/ɛl ˈpæsoʊ/; Spanish: [el ˈpaso] "the pass") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the 23rd-largest city in the U.S., the sixth-largest city in Texas, and the second-largest city in the Southwestern United States behind Phoenix, Arizona. The city is also the second-largest majority-Hispanic city in the U.S., with 81% of its population being Hispanic. Its metropolitan statistical area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth counties in Texas, and had a population of 868,859 in 2020. El Paso has consistently been ranked as one of the safest large cities in America.

El Paso stands on the Rio Grande across the Mexico–United States border from Ciudad Juárez, the most-populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua with over 1.5 million people. The Las Cruces area, in the neighboring U.S. state of New Mexico, has a population of 219,561. On the U.S. side, the El Paso metropolitan area forms part of the larger El Paso–Las Cruces combined statistical area, with a population of 1,088,420.

Anding District, which means "peaceful and stable", belongs to Dingxi City, Gansu Province. It is the seat of Dingxi Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. It is located in the central part of Gansu Province. It is 82.9km long from north to south and 73.3km wide from east to west, with a total area of 4225 square kilometers. The region has jurisdiction over 12 towns, 7 townships and 3 subdistrict offices, with a resident population of 430500 at the end of 2017. Anding District was built in 1096 AD (the second year of Shaosheng in the Northern Song Dynasty), named "Dingxizhai", and Dingxi County was founded in 1142 (the second year of Jin Huangtong). In September 2003, Dingxi County withdrew its county and set up a district, which was renamed as "Anding District of Dingxi City". Anding District is one of the birthplaces of the Yellow River civilization, the important town of the ancient "Silk Road" and the necessary place for the New Eurasian Continental Bridge. It is known as "Gansu throat and Lanzhou Gateway", which is far away from the provincial capital Lanzhou.
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