El Paso is a city in the extreme western tip of Texas, in the United States, right on the Rio Grande at the border with Mexico and just south of the New Mexico state line.

Quick Scoop: Where is El Paso, Texas?

  • El Paso sits in far West Texas, closer to New Mexico and Mexico than to most major Texas cities.
  • It is located along the Rio Grande, directly across the border from Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
  • The city lies at the foot of the Franklin Mountains in the Chihuahuan Desert, giving it a desert mountain landscape.

On the map

  • Coordinates are around 31.77° N latitude and 106.46° W longitude.
  • It is at the western edge of Texas, where Texas meets New Mexico and Mexico.

Nearby places (for mental map)

  • Roughly east of Tucson and Phoenix in Arizona, and far west of Austin and the rest of central Texas.
  • Forms a large cross-border urban area together with Ciudad Juárez just across the river.

If you picture Texas as a big rectangle, El Paso is tucked all the way in the top-left (western) corner along the border river.

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