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.
Tai'an City, a prefecture-level city of Shandong Province, is located in the middle of Shandong Province, with the provincial capital Jinan in the north, Jining in the south, Linyi in the east and the Yellow River in the west, with a total area of 7761 square kilometers. It is 66.8 kilometers from the provincial capital Jinan to the north and 74.6 kilometers to Qufu, the holy city of three holes in the south. Taian gets its name from Mount Tai. "Mount Tai is safe all over the world", which means that the country is peaceful and the people are safe. The city is located at the foot of Mount Tai, built according to the mountain, and the mountain city is one. Mount Tai in the territory is a national key scenic spot, with the reputation of "the first of the five mountains" and "the first mountain in the world". It is a world natural and cultural heritage. Tai'an was listed as the first batch of tourist cities open to the outside world by the State Council in 1982. It is one of the central cities in central Shandong, an excellent tourist city in China, and a famous historical and cultural city in China. 2018 CCTV Spring Festival Gala venue for the year of the Dog