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.
Chengguan District, which belongs to Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, is located in the central and eastern part of Gansu Province, between longitude 103 °46km east and latitude 35 °58km. It is 20.02 km long from east to west, 22.6 km wide from north to south and covers an area of 220 square km. Chengguan District is the central area of Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, where the party, government and military organs are stationed, and the political, economic, scientific, technological and cultural center of the province. The geomorphology is characterized by the crossing of the Yellow River between the north and south mountains. The Yellow River enters the Yellow River Estuary from the Leitan River, and Gaolan Mountain and Baita Mountain face each other from the north to the south. Chengguan District is a mid-temperate semi-arid zone, the average elevation in the urban area is 1520 meters, the highest peak is Yingpanling in the southeast of Gaolan Mountain, 2171 meters above sea level, and the lowest is the north beach of Yantan, 1503 meters above sea level. The annual average temperature is 1.