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.
Mianzhu, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province, is hosted by Deyang City. Located in the northwest of Sichuan Basin, backed by the Longmen Mountains, covering an area of 1245 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 20 towns and a township with a total population of 501000 in 2017. The city is located in Jingyang District of Deyang City in the southeast, bordering Anzhou District of Mianyang City in the northeast, facing Shifang City in the southwest and adjoining Mao County in Aba Prefecture in the northwest. It is a national pilot city for development and reform, a pilot city with multiple regulations in the 13th five-year Plan, a resource-mature city, and a demonstration county for leisure agriculture and rural tourism. Sichuan Province has a beautiful environment demonstration city, a strong industrial county demonstration county (city), and a key county to promote the construction of a new countryside as a whole. Mianzhu belongs to the humid climate zone in the middle subtropics of Sichuan Basin with a mild climate. It is the producing area of Jiannanchun, one of the three famous liquors in China. The Jiuding Mountain in the territory is a country.