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.
Gonghe County is one of the five counties in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province. it is a county with large population, vast territory and large proportion of animal husbandry economy in Qinghai Tibetan area. it plays an important role in the economic and social development layout of Qinghai Tibetan area. Located in the northeast of Qinghai Province, it is the Dongmen household of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as the "throat of Qinghai-Tibet". It is bounded by Qinghai Lake in the north, the "Mother River" in the south, the Yellow River in the east, Riyue Mountain in the east and the agricultural area in the east, and adjoins Qinghai's southern Tibetan area in the west. Gonghe County has jurisdiction over 11 townships, 99 administrative villages and 14 community neighborhood committees, with a total area of 17300 square kilometers. as of 2012, the total population was more than 134000, including 22 ethnic minorities, including Tibetan, Han, Hui, Sala and Mongolians. among them, ethnic minorities account for 70% of the total population of the county, and there are available grasslands.