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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.

Shifang, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province and hosted by Deyang City, is located in the Chengdu Plain in the hinterland of Sichuan Basin, adjacent to Mianzhu City and Jingyang District in the east, Guanghan City in the south and Pengzhou City in the west, belonging to the subtropical humid climate zone; it has jurisdiction over 2 streets and 14 towns with a total area of 864 square kilometers and a total population of 430000 in 2017. Shifu once enjoyed the reputation of "Yuji fairy hometown" because of the footprints of Dayu. Li Bing, a famous hydrologist in the Qin Dynasty, once treated the water here and died here. Shifang is also the hometown of Ma Daoyi, the eighth ancestor of Southern Zen Buddhism, and the sealed place of Yongya, a famous general of Han Dynasty, so Shifang City is also known as Yongcheng. The main natural landscapes of Shifang are Fenghua Mountain, Qingniutuo and so on. On December 14, 2017, Shifang was awarded the fourth civilized Model City of Sichuan Province. In November 2018, it was confirmed by the Ministry of Science and Technology
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