El Paso, Texas

**El Paso** is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat (the city where the county is governed) of El Paso County. It is in the far southwestern part of the U.S. state of Texas, along Interstate 10. The name comes from "El Paso de Norte", meaning The Passageway to the North.

The large majority of the city's inhabitants are Hispanic. The 2020 population 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. The city is also the second-largest majority-Hispanic city in the United States, with 81% of its population being Hispanic.

El Paso won the All-America City Award five times: 1969, 2010, 2018, 2020, and 2021.

The city has a desert climate and is home to the University of Texas at El Paso.

On August 3, 2019, 22 people were killed in a mass shooting.

## Sister cities

- Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
- Las Cruces, New Mexico
- Horizon City, Texas

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: El Paso, Texas
- **settlement type**: City
- **nicknames**: The Sun City, El Chuco
- **image flag**: Flag of El Paso, Texas.svg
- **flag size**: 120px
- **flag link**: Flag of El Paso
- **seal size**: 100px
- **image map**: ElPaso County ElPaso.svg
- **mapsize**: 250px
- **map caption**: Location in El Paso County, Texas, El Paso County and the state of Texas
- **pushpin map**: USA Texas#USA
- **pushpin relief**: yes
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision type1**: U.S. state, State
- **subdivision type2**: List of counties in Texas, County
- **subdivision name2**: El Paso County, Texas, El Paso
- **established title**: First settlement
- **established date**: 1680
- **established title2**: Settled as Franklin
- **established date2**: 1849
- **established title3**: Renamed El Paso
- **established date3**: 1852
- **established title4**: Town laid out
- **established date4**: 1859
- **established title5**: Municipal corporation, Incorporated
- **established date5**: 1873
- **government type**: Council–manager government, Council–manager
- **leader title**: List of mayors of El Paso, Texas, Mayor
- **leader name**: Renard Johnson (Democratic Party (United States), D)
- **leader title1**: City council
- **leader title2**: City manager
- **leader name2**: Dionne Mack
- **unit pref**: Imperial
- **area total km2**: 671.46
- **area land km2**: 669.33
- **area water km2**: 2.13
- **population total**: 678815
- **population as of**: 2020 United States Census, 2020
- **population rank**: List of United States cities by population, 23rd in the United States
List of municipalities in Texas, 6th in Texas
- **population metro**: 868859 (List of metropolitan statistical areas, 66th)
- **population density sq mi**: 2626.69
- **population density km2**: 1014.17
- **population demonym**: El Pasoan
- **timezone**: Mountain Standard Time Zone, MST
- **utc offset**: −07:00
- **timezone dst**: Mountain Daylight Time, MDT
- **utc offset dst**: −06:00
- **elevation m**: 1140
- **elevation ft**: 3740
- **postal code type**: ZIP Codes
- **area code**: Area code 915, 915
- **area code type**: North American Numbering Plan, Area codes
- **blank name sec1**: Federal Information Processing Standard, FIPS code
- **blank info sec1**: 48-24000
- **blank1 name sec1**: Geographic Names Information System, GNIS feature ID
- **blank1 info sec1**: 1380946
- **blank name sec2**: Primary airport
- **blank info sec2**: El Paso International Airport (ELP)
(major/international)
- **blank1 name sec2**: Secondary airport
- **blank1 info sec2**: Biggs Army Airfield (KBIF)
(military)
- **blank2 name sec2**: Interstate Highway System, Interstates
- **blank2 info sec2**:
- **blank3 name sec2**: U.S. Routes
- **blank3 info sec2**:
- **area total sq mi**: 259.25
- **area land sq mi**: 258.43
- **area water sq mi**: 0.82