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.
Xiao County, a county under the jurisdiction of Suzhou City, Anhui Province, is located at the north gate of Anhui Province, at the junction of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces, at the center of Huaihai Economic Zone, Xuzhou metropolitan area and the southeast edge of North China Plain. Known as the "thoroughfare of the four provinces", it is the node of the national implementation of overall strategies such as "Belt and Road Initiative" and "Central Plains Economic Zone" and the implementation of regional strategies such as "eastward development" and "revitalization of northern Anhui" in Anhui Province. It is bordered by Xuzhou in the east, Huaibei in the south, Lianfeng County in the north, Yongcheng and Dangshan in the northwest, Heze in Shandong Province, and Hanqiao District in Suzhou in the southeast, covering an area of 1885.3 square kilometers. Xiao County, known as Xiao Guo in ancient times, has a history of more than 6000 years of civilization and more than 3100 years of history of building the city. It is the birthplace of Han culture and filial piety culture. There are Jinzhai cultural sites, Huajia Temple sites and other Neolithic sites.