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.
Huishui County belongs to Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou Province. It is located in the central and southern part of Guizhou Province, bordering Guiyang, west and Anshun to the north. The county is 72 kilometers wide from east to west and 68 kilometers from north to south. Ethnic minorities account for 58%. Huishui has been established in Nanning since the five dynasties, Bafan in the Song Dynasty, Chengfan House and Dingfan House in the Ming Dynasty, which has a history of more than a thousand years. The Buyi, Miao, Han, Maonan, Zhuang, Yi, Shui, Hui and other ethnic groups who have lived in this land have built Huishui into a famous land of rice and millet and the hometown of orange fruits in Guizhou after generations of development. On April 24, 2019, the people's Government of Guizhou Province formally approved Huishui County to withdraw from the sequence of poor counties.