The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With 8,472 square miles (21,940 km2) and a population of more than 2.2 million people, it is the second-largest metropolitan area centered in Missouri (after Greater St. Louis) and is the largest metropolitan area in Kansas, though Wichita is the largest metropolitan area centered in Kansas. Alongside Kansas City, Missouri, these are the suburbs with populations above 100,000: Overland Park, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; Olathe, Kansas; Independence, Missouri; and Lee's Summit, Missouri.
Anshun is a prefecture-level city in Guizhou province. Located in the central and western part of Guizhou Province, 90 kilometers away from Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province. Located in the watershed of the Wujiang River Basin of the Yangtze River system and the Beipanjiang River Basin of the Pearl River system, it is a typical concentrated area of karst landforms in the world. Anshun is known as "the hometown of Chinese Waterfall", "hometown of Tunpu Culture", "hometown of Batik" and "Show of the West". It is an excellent tourist city in China, an open city for Class A tourism in China, and the only one in the country to "deepen reform, promote the symbiosis and prosperity of various economic sectors, and accelerate development". Reform pilot area, civil aviation industry national high-tech industrial base, Guizhou provincial historical and cultural city It is the "special economic zone for speeding up the development of Guizhou". In 2009, it is the top ten leisure cities with Chinese characteristics, the preferred area for karst scenery tourism in the world, and the six golden tourism in the country.