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.
Ningling County is located in the west of Shangqiu City, with a total area of 798 square kilometers, 14 townships, 1 industrial agglomeration area, 1 characteristic business district, 364 administrative villages (neighborhood committees), with a total population of 650000 and cultivated land of 793000 mu. It has been awarded the honorary titles of Getian Culture Township of China, Longevity Township of China, National Grain production County, National key County of Poverty Alleviation, National Agricultural Science and Technology Park, National Rural Tourism and Leisure Agriculture demonstration County, the most characteristic Cultural and Ecological Tourism County of China, Science Popularization demonstration County of Henan Province, County of remarkable Progress in Safety Construction and Advanced Unit of production Safety in Henan Province. County industrial agglomeration area won the first place in the province's "Ten Express" industrial agglomeration area. Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty was born in Ningling County in the first year of Yuan Hunting (122 BC). It has been more than 2100 years since the establishment of the county.