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.
Guangchang County, Xiazhong County, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province, is located in the south of Fuzhou City, at the western foot of Wuyi Mountain. It is bordered by Jianning County in Fujian Province in the east, Shicheng County in the south, Ningdu County in the west and Nanfeng County in the north. The county is 45 kilometers wide from east to west, 55 kilometers from north to south, with a total area of 1612 square kilometers. It has jurisdiction over 6 towns, 5 townships, 1 field, 129 administrative villages and 1 provincial industrial park, with a total population of 250000. Guangchang County is the south gate of Fuzhou City and the birthplace of Fuhe River, the second largest river in Jiangxi. The county was founded in the eighth year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1138). It got its name because of "Road to Fujian and Guangzhou, and the county belongs to Jianchang". Because it is rich in white lotus, it is known as "the hometown of white lotus in China". In 2016, the county's GDP reached 5.763 billion yuan, an increase of 8.7% over the same period last year. On February 23, 2018, Jiangxi Province withdrew from Guangchang County.