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.
Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, one of the five autonomous prefectures in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is based in Yining City. It is the only autonomous prefecture in China that has jurisdiction over both prefectural and county administrative regions. it is located in the Yili River Valley in the north of Tianshan in the west of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, with temperate continental climate and alpine climate. It has jurisdiction over 2 prefecture-level administrative regions and 11 county-level administrative regions, with a total area of 268593 square kilometers. The total population in 2017 is 4.6171 million. Ili Prefecture is adjacent to the Eurasian country of Kazakhstan, and there are Yili normal University in the west. The fourth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th divisions of the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps and a number of units directly under the central and autonomous regions, such as Xinjiang Mining and Metallurgical Bureau, Tianxi Forestry Bureau, Ashan Forestry Bureau, Xinjiang cigarette Factory, Ashi Gold Mine, etc. Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture is Xinjiang fine wool sheep and Yili horse.