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.
Xinhe County is under the jurisdiction of Xingtai City, Hebei Province, which is located in the south of Hebei Province and the north of Xingtai City. The administrative area covers an area of 366 square kilometers and has a resident population of 174300 (2016). It has jurisdiction over 2 towns, 4 townships and 169 administrative villages. The county people's government is stationed in the eastern section of Guangming Road, Xinhe Town. The ownership of the new river has been changed many times in previous dynasties, but it is not often abandoned. Tangyang County was bought in the early Western Han Dynasty, and it was called Xinhe County in the fourth year of Huangyou in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 1052). People with lofty ideals emerged in history, such as Tian Guang, a virgin of the State of Yan, Hou Gengchun of Dongguang of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yan Liang, a famous general of the three Kingdoms, Song Dengchun, a poet of the Ming Dynasty, and Dong Zhentang, a senior general of the Red Army. There are Tuotuo Tomb, Liu Gongdi, Ciming Temple and other historical sites in the territory. It is listed as the first batch of millennium ancient counties in Hebei Province. Xinhe County is located in the Fuyang River alluvial plain, the terrain is flat, with an average elevation of 25 meters.