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.
Daozhen Gelao and Miao Autonomous County (Daozhen County for short) is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Zunyi City, named after Yin Daozhen, a scholar in the Han Dynasty. Daozhen County is located in the northernmost part of Guizhou Province and is the slope zone of the transition from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to Sichuan Basin. It is adjacent to Nanchuan District, Wulong District and Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County in Chongqing in the northwest and northeast. The southwest and southeast are bordered by Zheng'an County and Wuchuan Gelao and Miao Autonomous County respectively. 180 km to the south of Zunyi, 338 km to Guiyang and 160 km to Chongqing, it is the "joint" between the central Guizhou economic zone and the Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone and the bridgehead of opening up and cooperation between Guizhou and Chongqing. By the end of 2017, Daozhen County had jurisdiction over 1 street, 11 towns, 2 townships and 1 nationality township, with a registered population of 350900 and a resident population of 247300. 2019