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.
Deyang, also known as Jingcheng, is a prefecture-level city in Sichuan Province. Located in the northeast of Chengdu Plain; located in the transition zone from Longmen Mountains to Sichuan Basin; the northwest has a mountain vertical climate and the southeast has a humid monsoon climate in the middle subtropics. The city has a total area of 5910 square kilometers, under the jurisdiction of 2 districts, 1 county, escrow 3 county-level cities; the registered population is 3.877 million in 2018. Adjacent to Chengdu, the provincial capital, Deyang is located at the intersection and overlap of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Yangtze River Economic Belt, making every effort to create a new city in the north of Chengdu's international metropolis. Deyang has well-developed transportation, 50 kilometers away from Shuangliu International Airport and 24 kilometers away from Qingbai River, the largest railway container center in Asia. Deyang is a major technology and equipment manufacturing base in China because of the "third-line construction" national layout of modern large industry. 2017 1