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.
Dongguan, one of the prefecture-level cities under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, one of the central cities of the Pearl River Delta and one of the cities of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, is a central city on the east coast of the Pearl River Delta approved by the State Council. By 2018, the city had jurisdiction over 4 streets and 28 towns, with a land area of 2460.1 square kilometers, a sea area of 82.57 square kilometers, a resident population of 8.3922 million, and an urban population of 7.6386 million, with an urbanization rate of 91.02%. Dongguan is located in the central and southern part of Guangdong Province, the east bank of the Pearl River Estuary, Guangzhou in the northwest, Shenzhen in the south and Huizhou in the northeast. Dongguan is the first of the "four little tigers of Guangdong" and is known as the "factory of the world". It is also one of the five prefecture-level cities without districts and one of the new first-tier cities in the country. Dongguan established a county during the period of the three Kingdoms.