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.
Qujing is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Yunnan Province, located in the east of Yunnan Province, at the source of the Pearl River, at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces and regions, known as "the key of Yunnan and Guizhou" and "Yunnan throat". It is 120km away from the provincial capital Kunming and covers an area of 28900 square kilometers, accounting for 13.63% of the area of Yunnan Province. As of April 2018, Qujing City has jurisdiction over 1 city, 3 districts and 5 counties. At the end of 2016, the total registered population of the city was 6.5297 million. Qujing is located in the Wumeng Mountains of the transitional zone from the eastern Yunnan plateau to the western Guizhou plateau in the middle of the Yunnan-Guizhou plateau. The west is embedded with the lake basin area of the central Yunnan plateau, the eastern part is gradually inclined to the Guizhou Plateau, and the central part is a watershed zone between the Yangtze River and the Pearl River. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. There are eight unique languages of Yi, Buyi, Zhuang, Miao and Yao.