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.
Shihezi, a county-level city directly under the jurisdiction of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, implements a division-city management system with the eighth Division of the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, which is managed by the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps. Located in the middle part of the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain, in the south of Junggar Basin, covering an area of 460 square kilometers, 150 kilometers east of Urumqi, the capital of the autonomous region, Shihezi University, one of the two 211 universities in Xinjiang. Shihezi was once the headquarters of the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, and then moved to Urumqi. Shihezi is a new city of military reclamation, which relies on farms, is dominated by industry, the combination of industry and agriculture, the combination of urban and rural areas, and the integration of agriculture, industry and commerce. Shihezi is famous for its reputation as "Gobi Pearl". In June 2017, Shihezi was named as a national health city. In the same year, Shihezi City confirmed that it would continue to retain the honorary title of national civilized city.