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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.

Lanzhou, referred to as "Lanzhou" or "Gao", or Jincheng in ancient times, is the capital of Gansu Province, an important industrial base and comprehensive transportation hub in northwest China approved by the State Council, one of the important central cities in the western region, and an important node city of the Silk Road Economic Belt. By 2018, the city had jurisdiction over five districts and three counties, with a total area of 13100 square kilometers, a built-up area of 321.75 square kilometers, a resident population of 3.7536 million, an urban population of 3.0415 million, and a urbanization rate of 81.03%. Lanzhou is located in northwest China and the central part of Gansu Province. It is located in the geometric center of the land territory of the Chinese mainland. It is a comprehensive transportation hub of railways, highways and aviation in Northwest China. It is also the headquarters of the army organs in the western theater of the Chinese people's Liberation Army. It is also the new Eurasian continental bridge.
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