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.
Tongren City, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guizhou Province, is located in the northeast of Guizhou Province, in the hinterland of Wuling Mountain area, in the east of Huaihua City, Hunan Province, and bordering Chongqing in the north, high in the northwest and low in the southeast, the whole territory is mainly mountainous, most areas belong to the mid-subtropical monsoon humid climate zone; the total area is 18003 square kilometers, and it has jurisdiction over 2 municipal districts, 4 counties and 4 autonomous counties; the resident population is 3.1688 million in 2018. The history has a long history. The Qin Dynasty was the hinterland of the central Guizhou county, and it was transferred to Wuling County in the Han Dynasty, and the county was ruled only in the Shu Han Dynasty; the Tang Dynasty belonged to Sizhou, Jinzhou and Qianzhou respectively. At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Sizhou and Sinan were set up to proclaim comfort, and the Yuan Dynasty set up a lawsuit against the army and people of the Copper people's Congress and the people of Xiaojiang. Ming Yongle withdrew Sizhou and Sinan Xuanwei Department in the eleventh year of the Ming Dynasty, and set up four prefectures of Tongren, Sinan, Shiqian and Wuluo at present, which belong to the newly-built