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.
Fuzhou, a city under the jurisdiction of Jiangxi Province (prefectural level), an important member of the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, is located in the east of Jiangxi Province. The administrative area is about 222km from north to south and 169km from east to west, with a total area of 18816.92 square kilometers, accounting for 11.27% of the total area of the province. Fuzhou has jurisdiction over 2 districts and 9 counties, with a total area of 18817 square kilometers and a resident population of 4.0472 million in 2018. Fuzhou is an ancient county on the right side of the Yangtze River, giving birth to celebrities such as Wang Anshi, Tang Xianzu and Zeng Gong. Fuzhou is one of the 20 cities in the economic zone on the west bank of the Taiwan Strait determined by the State Council. It is the first Poyang Lake Ecological Economic Zone in Jiangxi Province to be included in the national strategic regional development plan and one of the important cities in the former Central Soviet area. Fuzhou has been known as "collar rivers and lakes, control belt Fujian and Guangdong" since ancient times. Fuzhou is a national park.