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.
Heshan, a county-level city in charge of Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, is located in the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta in the south of Guangdong Province, facing Nanhai District and Shunde District in the east, Gaoming District in the north, Pengjiang District and Xinhui District in the south, and Kaiping City and Xinxing County in the west. 325 National Highway, Jianghe Expressway, Fokai Expressway and Jiangzhao Highway run through the city. One of the famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China. Heshan was founded as a county in the tenth year of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1732). It was named because there are mountains in the city that look like cranes. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, it was jointly known as Gaohe County with Gaoming County, and the organizational system of Heshan County was restored in 1982. In November 1993, the county was withdrawn and established as a city, under the jurisdiction of 10 towns, 22 community committees, 137 village committees and 10 immigrant villages in the three Gorges Reservoir area. Heshan City has won "80 well-off counties (cities)" and "one of the top 100 counties with national comprehensive strength".