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.
Anning District, Lanzhou District, Gansu Province, is located in the central part of Gansu Province, the western suburbs of Lanzhou City, the north bank of the Yellow River; located in the valley of the Lanzhou section of the Yellow River, the terrain is high in the north and low in the south, the continental climate is remarkable, with four distinct seasons; the total area is 82.33 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 8 streets; in 2014, the household registration population was 187189. The name of Anning District comes from Anning Castle, a military castle in the Ming Dynasty. it means "peace without trouble and without infringement". It is one of the necessary places of the ancient Silk Road. The forest coverage rate in the area is 43.4%, and the per capita public green space area reaches 12.2 square meters. won the title of "National Greening Model County" The western section of the Yellow River tourism customs line runs through the whole territory of Anning District, where there are Tianaxe Sand Palace, Renshou Hill, Yintan Wetland Park, Lanzhou Botanical Garden, Anning Ecological and Cultural Park, Jiuzhoutai and Wenshu Pavilion.