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.
Jiangxi, or Gan for short, is one of the 23 provinces in China and the capital of Nanchang. Jiangxi is located in southeastern China, on the south bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, belonging to East China, bounded by longitude 113 °34 "36"-118 °28 "58" east, latitude 24 °29 "14"-30 °04 "41" north, Zhejiang and Fujian in the east, Guangdong in the south, Hunan in the west, Hubei and Anhui in the north, and the Yangtze River in the north. Jiangxi, with its superior location and convenient transportation, is located in the south of the Yangtze River. since ancient times, it has been the "land of Gan Yue", "Wu Tou and Chuwei, Guangdong households and Fujian Ting". It is known as "the country of article meaning, the country of white crane fish and rice". Jiangxi is the central hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone, the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone and the Economic Zone on the west bank of the Taiwan Strait.