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.
Guangchang County, Xiazhong County, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province, is located in the south of Fuzhou City, at the western foot of Wuyi Mountain. It is bordered by Jianning County in Fujian Province in the east, Shicheng County in the south, Ningdu County in the west and Nanfeng County in the north. The county is 45 kilometers wide from east to west, 55 kilometers from north to south, with a total area of 1612 square kilometers. It has jurisdiction over 6 towns, 5 townships, 1 field, 129 administrative villages and 1 provincial industrial park, with a total population of 250000. Guangchang County is the south gate of Fuzhou City and the birthplace of Fuhe River, the second largest river in Jiangxi. The county was founded in the eighth year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1138). It got its name because of "Road to Fujian and Guangzhou, and the county belongs to Jianchang". Because it is rich in white lotus, it is known as "the hometown of white lotus in China". In 2016, the county's GDP reached 5.763 billion yuan, an increase of 8.7% over the same period last year. On February 23, 2018, Jiangxi Province withdrew from Guangchang County.