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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.

Tongguan County, which belongs to Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, is located at the eastern end of Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi Province. It is bordered by Lingbao City, Henan Province in the east, Huayin City in the west, Luonan County in the south, Dali County in the northwest, and Ruicheng County in Shanxi Province across the Yellow River in the north. It is between longitude 110o 090032 "- 110o 25027" east and latitude 34o 230033 "- 34o 390001" north, with a total area of 526 square kilometers. In 2018, Tongguan County had a resident population of 154200, with a regional gross domestic product (GDP) of 4.035 billion yuan, of which the added value of the primary industry was 484 million yuan, the secondary industry was 1.446 billion yuan, the tertiary industry was 2.104 billion yuan, and the primary, secondary and tertiary industries accounted for 12.0% and 35.8% of the GDP, respectively.
Travel Notes In Tongguan County