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.
Guangning County, which belongs to Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, is located in the central and western part of Guangdong Province, in the middle reaches of Suijiang River, a tributary of Beijiang River. Located in the one-hour living circle of the Pearl River Delta, it is one of the main passageways for Guangdong Province to travel to and from the Pearl River Delta by land from the nearest mountain counties in Guangdong Province and Guangxi, Hunan and other provinces. It is about 122.7 kilometers away from Guangzhou, and runs through the Erguang Expressway and Guiyang-Guangzhou High-speed Railway. The administrative area of the county covers an area of 2455 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 15 towns. in 2017, the county has a registered population of 589300. During the reign of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, riots occurred year after year in the northwest of Sihui County (now Guangning). In the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing, he successively led the Ming army to suppress the chaos. In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing, Che Sihui County was home to Guangning County. With the meaning of broad peace, Guangning was established. After its establishment, it still belongs to Zhaoqing Prefecture. one