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.
Liping County, under the jurisdiction of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, is located in the southeast of Guizhou Province, south of Qiandongnan Prefecture, east of Jingzhou Miao Dong Autonomous County and Tong Dong Autonomous County of Hunan Province, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region in the south, Rongjiang County and Congjiang County of Qiandongnan Prefecture in the west, Jinping County and Jianhe County of Qiandongnan Prefecture in the north. Liping County is the largest county with the largest area and the largest population in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, of which the Dong nationality accounts for about 71% of the total population of the county. It is the county with the largest population of the Dong nationality in China, and it is also the main birthplace of Dong culture, so it has the laudatory name of "the capital of Dong township". Liping is a famous historical and cultural city at the provincial level. the government stationed in Defeng was founded in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. The ancient city is well preserved, with the "oil pot of Shanhai granary".