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.
Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County, which belongs to Hezhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, is located in the northeast of Guangxi, between Dupang and Mengzhu at the junction of Hunan, Guangxi and Guangdong provinces, Jianghua Yao Autonomous County in Hunan Province in the east, Zhongshan County in the south, Gongcheng County in the west and Jiangyong County in Hunan Province in the north. Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County has a total area of 1572 square kilometers. By the end of 2012, it had jurisdiction over 9 towns and 3 townships, with a total population of 320000, of which the Yao population was 152000, accounting for 47.5% of the county's total population. In 2014, the county achieved a GDP of 5.574 billion yuan, an increase of 0.5% over 2013. Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County was called "Mountain country" in ancient times, surrounded by mountains on all sides, low in the middle, slightly oval basin, high in the north and low in the south, and mostly belonged to karst areas.