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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.

Tacheng: the county-level city under the jurisdiction of Tacheng area of Yili Prefecture, Xinjiang, is located in the northwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region and the Tacheng basin on the northwest edge of Junggar Basin, with a total area of 4356.6 square kilometers. It is bordered by the Republic of Kazakhstan in the northwest, Emin County in the east and Yumin County in the south. It is 530 kilometers to the east from Urumqi, the capital of the autonomous region, and only 12 kilometers to the west from the first-class national port, Baktu Port. It is one of the closest open cities in China to the border. Tower is referred to as "Tarbatai" (Mongolian marmot). Tacheng is the seat of the Tacheng Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China and the administrative office of Tacheng area. In 1984, the county was removed and the city was established. In 1992, it was listed as a further open city along the border by the State Council. In June 1992, with the approval of the State Council, the national border was established.
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