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.
Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, referred to as "Changji Prefecture", belongs to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, located at the northern foot of Tianshan Mountains, southeast edge of Junggar Basin, high in the south and low in the north, tilting from southeast to northwest, belonging to a typical continental arid climate; with a total area of 73900 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over two county-level cities, four counties and one autonomous county; the total population in 2017 is 1.406 million. Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang was once the only road leading to Central Asia and Europe from the New North Road of the ancient "Silk Road". It has been the throat of the western region and the barrier of northern Xinjiang since ancient times, and it is an important part of the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt in Xinjiang. North Xinjiang Railway, National Highway 312, National Highway 216, Provincial Highway 115 and Tuwu High-grade Highway run through the whole territory. At the same time, Changji Prefecture is also a worker to promote the intellectual property strategy of small and medium-sized enterprises.