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.
Guizhou, referred to as "Guizhou" or "Gui" for short, is a provincial administrative region of the people's Republic of China. Guiyang, the provincial capital, is located in the hinterland of southwest China. It is a transportation hub in southwest China and an important part of the Yangtze River economic belt. China's first national big data comprehensive experimental area, world-famous mountain tourism destinations and major mountain tourism provinces, national ecological civilization experimental area, inland open economic experimental area. It is bounded by 24 °37 degrees north latitude 29 °13 'longitude, 103 °36 degrees east longitude, 109 °35 degrees east longitude, Sichuan and Chongqing to the north, Hunan to the east, Guangxi to the south, and Yunnan to the west. The topography of Guizhou is high in the west and low in the east, tilting from the middle to the north, east and south. The geomorphology of the province can be summarized as follows: the topography is high in the west and low in the east, tilted from the middle to the north, east and south, and the landform is plateau and mountainous area.