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.
Luonan County, located in the southeast of Shaanxi Province, belongs to Shangluo City. Located in the south of Huashan, Huayang Pool is set up in Zhou and Huayang County is located in Qin Dynasty. It is 108 kilometers away from Xi'an. It is adjacent to Lushi and Lingbao in Henan to the east, Danfeng and Shangzhou to the south, Huazhou and Lantian to the west, Huayin and Tongguan to the north, and is known as Shaanxi's "southeast gateway". It is the only Yellow River valley county in Shangluo City and the "top ten gold medal walnut counties" in China. The forest coverage rate is above 90%. Luonan is the hometown of Chinese character culture, and the word Shengcangjie created the characters here, so Luonan is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization. On August 4, 2018, the Fifth Plenary session of the fourth Shangluo Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China discussed and deliberated the opinions on abolishing the establishment of Huayang District in Luonan County. This work is being submitted to the State Council for approval in accordance with the procedures, which means that Luonan County will withdraw in the future.