The city hosts the annual Sun Bowl college football postseason game, the second-oldest bowl game in the country. The city is home to three publicly traded companies, and former Western Refining, now Marathon Petroleum, as well as home to the Medical Center of the Americas, the only medical research and care provider complex in West Texas and Southern New Mexico, and the University of Texas at El Paso, the city's primary university. The region of 2.5 million people constitutes the largest bilingual and binational work force in the Western Hemisphere. These three cities form a combined international metropolitan area sometimes referred to as the Paso del Norte or the Borderplex. side, the El Paso metropolitan area forms part of the larger El Paso-Las Cruces combined statistical area, with a population of 1,060,397. state of New Mexico, has a population of 215,579. The Las Cruces area, in the neighboring U.S. Įl 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 1.4 million people. Its metropolitan statistical area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth counties in Texas, and had a population of 843,725 in 2019. The city is also the second-largest majority-Hispanic city in the United States, with 81% of its population being Hispanic. The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the 23rd-largest city in the United States, the sixth-largest city in Texas, and the second-largest city in the Southwestern United States behind Phoenix, Arizona. El Paso ( / ɛ l ˈ p æ s oʊ/ Spanish: "the pass") is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County in the far southwestern part of the U.S. state of Texas.
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