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.
Dangxiong, which means "selected grassland" in Tibetan, belongs to the Tibet Autonomous region and is located in the middle of the Tibet Autonomous region at the junction of southern and northern Tibet. It covers an area of 10036 square kilometers (2013) Dangxiong County has a plateau continental climate, with 2881 hours of annual sunshine. The annual precipitation is 481 mm. The gale above level 8 can reach 74 days a year. Up to 128 days. The main natural disasters are snow disasters, followed by wind disasters, drought, insect disasters, rodent disasters and so on. From January to June 2014, Dangxiong County's tourism revenue was 14.41 million yuan, an increase of 27.31 percent over the same period last year; it received 145698 tourists, an increase of 44.61 percent over the same period last year. In October 2018, the people's Government of Tibet Autonomous region formally approved Dangxiong County to withdraw from poverty-stricken counties (districts).