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.
Nie Rong County is under the jurisdiction of Naqu City, Tibet Autonomous region, located in the northern part of the Tibet Autonomous region, the southern foot of Tanggula Mountain, located in the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and on the border with Qinghai Province. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. The average elevation is about 4700 meters. The territory has undulating mountains and vertical and horizontal gullies, some peaks in the northwest are covered with snow all the year round, the relative height difference between the central and southern peaks is large, and the low mountains and hills are scattered with valleys. Nie Rong County has jurisdiction over 1 district, 9 townships and 173 villages. It covers an area of 14540 square kilometers, of which the available grassland area is 18 million mu. The financial revenue of the county reached 1.2 million yuan in 2003, an increase of 53000 yuan over 2002, with a total population of 30, 000 (2003). On February 6, 2019, the people's Government of the Tibet Autonomous region decided to withdraw Nierong County from the poverty-stricken county.