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.
Chaoyang, Liaoning Province under the jurisdiction of prefecture-level cities, also known as "Dragon City". Located in western Liaoning; the terrain is high in the north and northwest, southwest and low to the east, living in the continental monsoon climate zone of the north temperate zone; it has jurisdiction over two districts, three counties and two cities, with a total area of 19736 square kilometers; the total population in 2017 is 3.365 million. Chaoyang is the hub of political, economic and cultural exchanges between Northeast China and the Central Plains. Today, Chaoyang City is connected with the industrial urban agglomeration in central Liaoning in the east, the Bohai Sea in the south, the Beijing, Tianjin and Tang economic circles in the west, and the hinterland of Inner Mongolia in the north. Chaoyang has been the link area between Northeast China and the Central Plains since ancient times, so it has formed a multi-ethnic historical city in Northeast China and a strategic location of past dynasties. In 2017, Chaoyang realized the total regional production.