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.
Huangshi, a prefecture-level city in Hubei Province, is located in the southeast of Hubei Province, on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, facing the Yangtze River in the northeast, across the river from Huanggang City, Echeng District of Ezhou City in the north, Jiangxia District of Wuhan City and Liangzihu District of Ezhou City in the west, Xianning District and Tongshan County in Xianning City in the southwest, and Wuning County and Ruichang City in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province in the southeast. Huangshi is one of the first two provincial municipalities established in Hubei Province after the founding of the people's Republic of China, the deputy central city of Wuhan city circle, an important member of the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, an important raw material industrial base in central China, and a national pilot city for resource depletion transformation. it is also an open city along the river approved by the State Council. In June 2017, Huangshi was named the national health city. Huangshi City has a total land area of 4583 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over four municipal districts as of the end of March 2017.