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.
Huaibei, referred to as "Huai", called "Xiangcheng" in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province. The central city in the northeast of Anhui Province, an important energy city in the country. Located in the north of Anhui Province, it is located at the junction of Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces, Xiao County in the north, Bozhou in the south, Suzhou in the east and Shangqiu in Henan Province in the west. It is 150km long from north to south and 50km from east to west, with a total area of 2802 square kilometers, making it the smallest prefecture-level city in Anhui Province. The total population in 2016 is 2.165 million. It has jurisdiction over three municipal districts in Xiangshan District, Liishan District, Duji District and one county in Suixi County. The municipal government is stationed in Xiangshan District. Huaibei has a long history and a gathering of humanities. More than four thousand years ago, the eleven ancestors of Shang and Tang Dynasty built the city at the southern foot of Xiangshan, which was the beginning of civilization. Since then, successive dynasties have set up counties and counties here. There are Uncle Yu, Huan Tan, Ji Kang, Liu Ling and so on.