El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. It is the 23rd-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.

County: El Paso
First settlement: 1680
Settled as Franklin: 1849
Renamed El Paso: 1852
Town laid out: 1859
Incorporated: 1873
• Type: Council–manager
• Mayor: Renard Johnson
• City council: , Alejandra Chavez, Josh Acevedo, Deanna Maldonado-Rocha, Cynthia Boyar Trejo, Ivan Niño, Art Fierro, Lily Limón, Chris Canales
• City manager: Dionne Mack
Population (2020): 678,815
• Rank: 66th in North America, 22nd in the United States, 6th in Texas
• Urban: 854,584 (US: 53rd)
• Metro: 879,392 (US: 69th)
• CSA: 1,108,758
Demonym(s): El Pasoan
Time zone: MST (UTC−07:00)
• Summer (DST): MDT (UTC−06:00)
ZIP Codes: , 79900–79999, 88500–88599 (PO boxes)
Area code: 915
FIPS code: 48-24000
GNIS feature ID: 2410414
Website: [elpasotexas.gov]
Twitter profile: ElPasoTXGov
Youtube channel: UCwYdX-cXdg609Ppl8Bjq07g
Official Website: https://www.elpasotexas.gov/
Wikidata description: city in and county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States
Wikidata id: Q16562
Wikidata label: El Paso
Wikidata aliases: Array
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