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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.

Maqin County, located in the southeast of Qinghai Province and northeast of Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, is a national "Sanjiangyuan" ecological reserve. The county has a total area of 13400 square kilometers in 2009, of which the grassland area is 17.6362 million mu, and the available grassland area is 16.2801 million mu, accounting for 92.3% of the grassland area. It is a typical plateau and mountain type, with an average elevation of more than 4100 meters. It now has jurisdiction over 35 administrative villages and 96 animal husbandry cooperatives in 6 townships and 2 towns. In December 2016, it was listed as the third batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new urbanization. On December 29, 2018, the sixth national unity and progress demonstration zone (unit) was named by the State Civil Affairs Commission.
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