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.
Huaiji County, which belongs to Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, is located in the northwest of Guangdong Province, the north of Zhaoqing City and the upper reaches of Suijiang River, a tributary of Beijiang River. It is located in the uplift belt of western Guangdong, with basin areas in the west, low hills and high hills in the middle and south, with a subtropical climate, long summer and short winter, abundant rainfall, and an annual average temperature of 21.1℃. With a total area of 3554.07 square kilometers, it is the largest county in Zhaoqing County. As of 2017, Huaiji County has jurisdiction over 18 towns and one nationality township, with a registered population of 1.1 million and a resident population of 848400. Huaiji County was established in Yintun Township, Sihui County, Nanhai County in the 13th year of Song Yuanjia of the Southern Dynasty (436 years). The Song Dynasty formed the basic realm of today's Huaiji County. The Yuan Dynasty was transferred to Hezhou, Huguangzhong Book Co., Ltd. The Ming Dynasty was transferred to Wuzhou Prefecture in Guangxi. It was assigned to Guangdong Province in March 1952 and Zhao in 1988.