Category:North America/United States of America/Texas/El Paso/

Coordinates: 31°47′25″N 106°25′24″W 31.79028, -106.42333

El Paso

El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, and part of the American Southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau's 2006 population estimates, the city had a population of 606,913. It is the sixth-largest city in Texas and the 22nd-largest city in the United States. Its metropolitan area covers all of El Paso County. The metropolitan area has a population of 736,310.El Paso stands on the Rio Grande (Ro Bravo del Norte), across the border from Ciudad Jurez, Chihuahua. The image to the right shows Downtown El Paso and Jurez, with the Jurez Mountains in the background. The two cities form a combined International Area with Juarez being the significantly larger of the two. Together they have a combined population of 2,049,648, with Jurez accounting for 23 of the population.El Paso is home to the University of Texas at El Paso (founded in 1914 as The Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy). Fort Bliss, a major United States Army installation, lies to the east and northeast of the city, with training areas extending north into New Mexico, up to the White Sands Missile Range. The Franklin Mountains extend into El Paso from the north and nearly divide the city into two sections, with downtown connecting the two sections at the south end of the mountain range.^[1]

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