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.
Jialing District, which belongs to Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, is located on the west bank of the Jialing River. Jialing District is a county-level administrative district approved by the State Council in September 1993. It borders Shunqing District in the north, Wusheng County in the south, Xichong County and Pengxi County in the west, Gaoping District in the east, and forms a two-hour economic development circle with Chengdu and Chongqing. Jialing District has jurisdiction over 6 streets, 22 towns and 18 townships, covering an area of 1278 square kilometers; in 2013, the total population was 704800. By 2015, Jialing District had achieved a GDP of 12.59 billion yuan. On July 31, 2018, the Sichuan provincial government approved Jialing District to withdraw from the sequence of poor counties.