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.
Guangde City, Anhui Province under the jurisdiction of county-level cities, by Xuancheng escrow. It is located in the southeast of Anhui Province, at the junction of eight counties (cities) of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, between 30 °37 degrees north latitude and 119 °02 degrees east longitude, with a total area of 2165 square kilometers. Guangde City ranks first in the province and sixth in the country, and is "the hometown of bamboo in China" and "the hometown of Chinese chestnut". It was awarded as "National Greening Model County", "National Economic Forest Construction demonstration County", "National Mountain area Comprehensive Development demonstration County", and one of the top ten counties (cities) of forestry industry in the province. In August 2019, the establishment of Guangde County was approved and administered by Xuancheng City directly under the jurisdiction of Anhui Province. On October 8, 2019, it was named as the top 100 counties and cities with comprehensive strength in 2019 and 2019.