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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.

Zhangxian, which belongs to Dingxi City, Gansu Province, has a poor name because of its important strategic position and is regarded as the "western barrier" of the Han Dynasty. Tianshi changed its name to Wuyang County in the second year of the Tang Dynasty, and changed its name to Zhangxian County during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. Zhangxian County is located in the central and southern part of Gansu Province, located in the transitional zone between the West Qinling Mountains and the Loess Plateau, Wushan County in the east, Zhuoni County in the west, Minxian County in the south, Longxi County and Weiyuan County in the north, with a total area of 2164.4 square kilometers and a population of 205876. Among them, non-agricultural population 19056 (2010), is a national poverty alleviation and development work key county. Zhangxian is "the hometown of broad beans in China" and "the hometown of Hippophae rhamnoides in China". It was named "Green County in China" by the China Environmental Protection Federation in August 2008 and was named by China in 2005.
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