El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County in the far western part of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2019 population estimate for the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 681,728, making it the 22nd-largest city in the United States, the sixth-largest city in Texas, and the second-largest city in the Southwest behind Phoenix, Arizona. Its metropolitan statistical area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth counties in Texas, and had a population of 843,725 in 2019.
