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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.

Lincang, a prefecture-level city in Yunnan Province, is located in the southwest of Yunnan Province, bordering Pu'er City in the east, Dali Prefecture in the north, Baoshan City in the west, and Myanmar in the southwest, located between the Lancang River and the Nujiang River. Located 598 kilometers from the provincial capital Kunming, the municipal government is a land shortcut from Kunming to Yangon, Myanmar, with three national ports and 17 passageways. Lincang is located in the southern extension of the Nushan Mountains in the Hengduan Mountains, which belongs to the longitudinal valley of western Yunnan. It has a monsoon climate in the subtropical low-latitude plateau and is rich in water resources. It is an important national hydropower energy base and an important sugar and wine production base in Yunnan, living in the world.
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