El Paso

Also known as El Paso, Texas, El Paso del Norte, El Paso, TX

city in and county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States

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El Paso is a city in Texas that serves as the county seat of El Paso County. It is an important urban center in the state, though specific details about its role and significance would require additional information.

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Official name: El Paso
Demonym: Paseño
Population: 678815
Area: 663.698668
Elevation: 1140
Official website: rgfn.epcc.edu/rgfn/projects/city
Image: El Paso Skyline.jpg
Households: 230905
Dialing code: 915

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postal code: 79961
Commons category: El Paso, Texas
Commons gallery: El Paso, Texas
inception: 1680-00-00
nickname: Land of the Sun
native label: El Paso
social media followers: 7030
P8168: Gianna Michaels
water as percent of area: 0.3981
per capita income: 23450

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El Paso ( English: /ɛl ˈpæsoʊ/ ; Spanish: [el ˈpaso] , lit. 'the route' or 'the pass') is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. It is the 22nd-most populous city in the U.S., sixth-most populous city in Texas, and the most populous city in West Texas with a population of 678,815 at the 2020 census. The El Paso metropolitan area has an estimated 879,000 residents.

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. On the U.S. side, the El Paso metropolitan area forms part of the larger El Paso–Las Cruces combined statistical area with Las Cruces, New Mexico with a population of 1,108,758. These three cities form a combined international metropolitan area sometimes referred to as the Paso del Norte or the Borderplex, a region of 2.7 million people which constitutes the largest bilingual and binational workforce in the Western Hemisphere.