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.
Bole City, located in the northwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is the capital of Bortala Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture, the seat of the Fifth Division of Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, and the political, economic and cultural center of the whole state. Bordering Kazakhstan, the border is 95 kilometers long and 524 kilometers away from Urumqi, the capital of the autonomous region. It is an important open city along the border in western China and the western bridgehead of the second Eurasian Continental Bridge. Alashankou Port, the first-class open port in China (established in 2012), is a state-level border economic cooperation zone and import and export trade processing zone integrating industry, trade, tourism, real estate development and other industries. It has jurisdiction over three towns and two townships, two state-owned pastures and three streets, and five regimental farms of the Fifth Division of the Corps (Shuanghe City was established in 2016), and the administration of the whole city