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.
Batang County is located in the west of Ganzi Prefecture and belongs to Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Latitude 28 °46-30 °38'N, longitude 98 °58 mi 99 °45 'east. It is about 260 kilometers from north to south and 45 kilometers from east to west. It covers an area of 8186 square kilometers (2013). It is bounded by Township City and Litang County to the east, Delong County to the south, Mangkang County, Yanjing County, Gongjue County in Tibet and Deqin County in Yunnan Province to the west, and Baiyu County to the north. In 2006, the income of urban and rural people in Batang County was 8000 yuan. The per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen is 1396 yuan. In 2006, the local financial revenue of Batang County reached 9.71 million yuan. The balance of deposits in financial institutions totaled 417.86 million yuan, an increase of 173.11 percent. The balance of various loans totaled 109.83 million yuan, an increase of 41.9%. twenty