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El Paso County
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county in Texas, United States
El Paso County is a county located in Texas in the far western part of the state, bordering Mexico. It is an important region economically and strategically due to its location on the U.S.-Mexico border and its major city, El Paso.
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- El Paso
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Texas
- Contains
- El Paso
- Capital
- El Paso
- Population
- 865657
- Area
- 2628
- Shares border with
- Juárez Municipality
- Official website
- www.epcounty.com
- Image
- El Paso Skyline.jpg
- Households
- 273662
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from El Paso County, Texas
- Commons category
- El Paso County, Texas
- topic's main category
- Category:El Paso County, Texas
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in El Paso County, Texas
- inception
- 1871-00-00
- topic has template
- Template:El Paso County, Texas
- different from
- El Paso County
- water as percent of area
- 0.2
- native label
- Condado de El Paso
- per capita income
- 22490
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Encyclopedic overview
El Paso County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 865,657, making it the tenth-most populous county in Texas. Its county seat is the city of El Paso, the sixth-most populous city in Texas and the 22nd-most populous city in the United States. The county was created in 1850 and later organized in 1871.
El Paso is from the name El Paso del Norte, which is Spanish for "the Route of the North". It is named for the pass the Rio Grande creates through the mountains on either side of the river. The county is northeast of the Mexico–United States border.
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