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.
Gutian County (ancient Gutian County, Fuzhou Capital), is now under the jurisdiction of Ningde City, Fujian Province, located in the northeast of Fujian Province, the north bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Minjiang River, Gutian Creek runs through the whole territory. The county was founded in the 29 year of Tang Kaiyuan (741). It is known as "the hometown of hydropower", "the hometown of overseas Chinese", "the hometown of Chinese edible fungi", "the hometown of sports" and "the hometown of culture". Gutian is the capital of edible fungi in China; the per capita share of water resources ranks first in China; Gutianxi Hydropower Station is the first underground power station in China; Gutian has been rated as China's advanced sports county and Chinese cultural model county. In December 2016, it was listed as the third batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new urbanization. In 2018, the regional GDP reached 16.75044 billion yuan, an increase of 5.1%, of which the added value of the primary industry was 4.39291 billion yuan.