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.
Shenxian is a county under the jurisdiction of Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, which is located in the west of Shandong Province, the southwest of Liaocheng City and the junction of Hebei, Shandong and Henan provinces. With an area of 1420 square kilometers and a population of 1.038 million (2014), Liaocheng is the largest and most populous county in Liaocheng. It has jurisdiction over 4 streets and 20 towns. No. 3, Government Street, County people's Government. Shenxian County is located in the flooded area of the alluvial plain in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, which is high in the southwest and low in the northeast. It belongs to the warm temperate semi-humid monsoon climate. The main rivers are Tuhai River, Majia River, Jindi River and so on. Mineral resources include oil, natural gas, rock salt and so on. Shenxian is the old revolutionary base area and the restoration area of Shandong Provincial Party Committee. During the Anti-Japanese War, it was the central area of Hebei-Shandong-Henan Anti-Japanese Base area. Revolutionaries such as Zhu de, Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, Song Renqiong, Yang Dezhi and Yang Yong left work and war here.