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.
Jingyang County, which belongs to Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, is located in the central part of Shaanxi Province, north of the Jinghe River, and the hinterland of "eight hundred miles of Qinchuan". It is the origin of the land of the people's Republic of China, the east is bordered by Sanyuan and Gaoling District, and the Weicheng District of Xianyang City is bordered by the Weicheng District of Xianyang City in the south. Jinghe River is opposite to Liquan County in the west, and to the north is adjacent to Beizhong Mountain, Chunhua and Sanyuan County, with a total area of 780 square kilometers. Jingyang is located in the north of the Jinghe River. In ancient times, Jingyang took the north of the water as the sun, hence its name, which was first seen in the Book of songs. Jingyang County is the place where biography of Liu Yi, one of the four major folklore in China, takes place, and many scholars, writers and poets have emerged successively, such as Wu Mi, Lei Lyriyan, Li Ruobing, Bai Sketch and so on. It is the strategic important place of the national new area "Xixian New area".