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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.

Gangu County, which belongs to Tianshui City, Gansu Province, is located in the southeast of Gansu Province, northwest of Tianshui City, and upstream of Weihe River. It is bordered by Qinan County and Maiji District in the east, Qinzhou District and Lixian in the south, Wushan County in the west and Tongwei County in the north. The total area is 1572.6 square kilometers. As of 2012, Gangu County has a total population of 630000. The famous specialties of Gangu County are hemp shoes, ridges, fried potatoes, Gangu pulp water surface, crisp circles and so on. The famous figures of Gangu County are Pan Qinyue, Shi Zuoshu, Gong Jianfeng, Jiang Wei, Mrs. Yin and so on. Gangu County has won the honorary titles of "hometown of National Pepper" and "hometown of Chinese Pepper". On April 28, 2019, the Gansu provincial government approved Gangu County to formally withdraw from the poverty-stricken county.
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