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.
Qingshui County, under the jurisdiction of Tianshui City, Gansu Province, is located in the southeast of Gansu Province, northeast of Tianshui City, Niutou River Basin, a tributary of the Weihe River on the north bank of Longshan, southwest of Longshan; Longxian County, Baoji in the east, wheat accumulation area in the south, Qinan County in the west, and Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County in the north; it is located in the transitional zone from Longshan Mountain to Longxi Loess Plateau, with temperate continental monsoon climate; it has jurisdiction over 15 towns and 3 townships with a total area of 2012 square kilometers. The total population in 2018 is 332364. Qingshui was called Shangfu in ancient times and got the name of the county from "four Notes of Qingquan". It is the birthplace of Huangdi Xuanyuan, the first ancestor of Chinese humanities, the birthplace of Qin unified China, and the hometown of Zhao Chongguo in the Western Han Dynasty. Prehistoric culture, pre-Qin culture, Han and Tang culture, Song (Jin) and Yuan culture accumulation; the territory has been identified by the State Administration of Cultural relics as "Wei and Jin ancient city" and "not"