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.
Fuxin, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Liaoning Province, is located in the low mountain and hilly area of western Liaoning Province. It is the central city in the northwest of Liaoning Province and one of the important cities in Shenyang Economic Zone. The transitional zone between the Inner Mongolia Plateau and the northeast Liaohe Plain is a long rectangle with an oblique axis at the intersection of 42 °10'N and 122 °00'E. It is 170km long from east to west and 84km wide from north to south, with a total area of 10445 square kilometers. The terrain is high in the northwest, low in the southeast, high in the southwest and low in the northeast. It has jurisdiction over five districts and two counties, with a total population of 1.85 million in 2018. Fuxin has a long history and culture. Because the first jade in the world and the first dragon in China were unearthed, it is known as "the hometown of Yulong and the beginning of civilization". Fuxin is the cradle of Qidan nationality, the hometown of Zhang Sanfeng, the guru of Wudang, and the eastern spread of Tibetan Buddhism.