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.
Guangyuan City, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province, borders Gansu Province and Shaanxi Province in the north; Nanchong City in the south; Mianyang City in the west; Bazhong City in the east; on the northern edge of Sichuan, the mountain is in the transition zone to the basin, belonging to the subtropical humid monsoon climate; the city has a total area of 16314 square kilometers, with 3 districts and 4 counties under its jurisdiction; and there are 3.0262 million registered residents in 2017. Guangyuan City has been an important passageway into Sichuan since ancient times. It is the old place of Guo, the fortress of entering Shu, and the important town of the three Kingdoms. Guangyuan has a profound cultural heritage, especially the bright red gene handed down from generation to generation. Guangyuan is the concentrated display of pre-Qin ancient plank road culture and Chinese Shu road culture, the core corridor of the history and culture of the three Kingdoms, and the birthplace of the only female emperor Wu Zetian in Chinese history. It is also the core area of the former Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet area and the later stage of the Red fourth Front Army.