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.
Dangtu County, which belongs to Maanshan City, Anhui Province, is located in the east of Anhui Province and the east bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It is bordered by Bowang District and Shijiu Lake to the east, Lishui District and Gaochun District in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province to the east, the Yangtze River to the west, across the river to Hexian County, Wuhu County and Xuancheng City to the south, and Yushan District to the north. Dangtu County has a history of more than 2200 years. Danyang County was established in the Qin Dynasty, and it was named Dangtu in the ninth year of Sui Kaihuang (589). In history, the county seat was the seat of Taiping Prefecture in Song Dynasty, Taiping Mansion in Ming and Qing dynasties, Yangtze River navigator in Qing Dynasty and Anhui Science and Government Office. Since the Qin Dynasty, it has attracted more than 600 poets to leave more than 1000 popular poems here. Xie Kui, a great poet of the Southern Dynasty, called it "the capital of mountains and rivers". The poem fairy Li Bai visited Dangtu seven times and wrote 56 unique poems such as "Wangtianmen Mountain".