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.
Huzhu Tu Autonomous County is a county under the jurisdiction of Haidong City, Qinghai Province. it is located in the east of Qinghai Province and north of Haidong City, relying on the Daban Mountains of Qilian Mountains in the north, adjacent to Menyuan Hui Autonomous County of Haibei Prefecture in the northeast, adjacent to Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County and Yongdeng County in Gansu Province in the northeast, Ledu District of the municipal government in the southeast, bounded by Huangshui in the south, facing Pingan District in the south, Datong County in Xining City in the west, and the provincial capital Xining City in the southwest. The county is about 64 kilometers from north to south and 86 kilometers from east to west, with a total area of 3423.9 square kilometers. There are no lakes in the county, there are 8 large and small natural rivers, all of which belong to the Yellow River basin and Huangshui water system, with a total length of 2895 kilometers. The bluestone of the Daban Mountains runs through the whole territory from northwest to southeast, dividing the whole county into two major topographic units. Huzhu Tu Autonomous County has jurisdiction over 8 towns and 9 townships.