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.
Gao County, which belongs to Yibin City, Sichuan Province, is located on the southern edge of Sichuan Basin, Gongxian County and Changning County to the east, Xuzhou District to the west, Yunlian County to the south, Cuiping District of Yibin City to the north, Nanxi District to the northeast and Yanjin County, Yunnan Province to the northeast and southwest, between longitude 104 °21 and latitude 28 °11 to 28 °47', the county is 61 km long from north to south and 32 km wide from east to west, with a total area of 1323 square kilometers. The mountains, hills and trough dams in Gaoxian County account for 43.88% respectively. 43.72%, 12.4%. There are 31 large and small rivers, belonging to the Jinsha River and the Yangtze River system, of which Nanguang River is the largest river in the county. It belongs to the humid monsoon climate in the middle subtropics, with an annual average temperature of 18.1 ℃ and a precipitation of 1021 mm.