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.
Pinghe County (ancient Pinghe County, Zhangzhou Capital), under the jurisdiction of Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, is located in the southwest of Zhangzhou, connected with Fujian and Guangdong provinces and eight counties, known as the "thoroughfare of eight counties". There are Fuzhao Expressway, Yunping Expressway (under construction), 207 Provincial Highway, 309 Provincial Highway and other trunk lines. In ancient times, Pinghe was the city of Yangzhou, Zhou was the land of seven Min, and Ming Zhengde bought a county in the thirteenth year of Ming Zhengde (1518), meaning "Keping and human harmony". The key hometown of overseas Chinese and the ancestral place of Taiwan compatriots in Fujian Province is not only an economically underdeveloped county, but also a coastal economic open county; Pinghe County is also one of the key hometown of overseas Chinese in Fujian Province, but also one of the important ancestral places of Taiwan compatriots; the former central Soviet area county and the province's key old base county. Pinghe County has an area of 2328.6 square kilometers, ranking first in Zhangzhou. Under the jurisdiction of 16 townships (farms), 240