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.
Huize County, which belongs to Qujing City, Yunnan Province, is located in the northeast of Yunnan Province, the east bank of Jinsha River and the northwest of Qujing City, between longitude 103 °55 'east and latitude 25 °48 °27 °04' north. It is adjacent to Xuanwei City and Weining County, Guizhou Province to the east, Zhanyi District to the south, Xundian County in Kunming City to the south, Dongchuan District in Kunming City to the west, Qiaojia County in Zhaotong City to the west, and Ludian County to the north. Huize County has a maximum horizontal distance of 84 kilometers from east to west and a maximum vertical distance from north to south of 138km, with a land area of 5886 square kilometers. Zhongping Town, the county seat, is 2120 meters above sea level, 245km away from Qujing city and 210km away from Kunming, the provincial capital. In 2006, the eight major guild halls in Huize were rated as national key cultural relic protection units; in 2009, Huize was recommended as China 1 by the National Human Geography.