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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.

Jingyang County, which belongs to Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, is located in the central part of Shaanxi Province, north of the Jinghe River, and the hinterland of "eight hundred miles of Qinchuan". It is the origin of the land of the people's Republic of China, the east is bordered by Sanyuan and Gaoling District, and the Weicheng District of Xianyang City is bordered by the Weicheng District of Xianyang City in the south. Jinghe River is opposite to Liquan County in the west, and to the north is adjacent to Beizhong Mountain, Chunhua and Sanyuan County, with a total area of 780 square kilometers. Jingyang is located in the north of the Jinghe River. In ancient times, Jingyang took the north of the water as the sun, hence its name, which was first seen in the Book of songs. Jingyang County is the place where biography of Liu Yi, one of the four major folklore in China, takes place, and many scholars, writers and poets have emerged successively, such as Wu Mi, Lei Lyriyan, Li Ruobing, Bai Sketch and so on. It is the strategic important place of the national new area "Xixian New area".
Travel Notes In Jingyang County