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.
Jiulong County is located in western Sichuan Province, southeast of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and southwest of Gongga Mountain. Jiulong County covers an area of 6770 square kilometers, has jurisdiction over 17 townships and one town, with a total population of 52000. In 2008, GDP reached 470 million yuan, local revenue was 98.73 million yuan, and the per capita income of farmers and herdsmen was 4963 yuan. Kowloon is located in the transitional zone between Panxi Plain and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, forming four major landforms: high mountains, extremely high mountains, mountains and river valleys, with high topography in the north and low in the south, great disparity in height, complex topography, abundant rainfall, sufficient sunshine, and a typical three-dimensional climate. There is a saying that "one mountain is divided into four seasons, ten miles is different from the sky". Kowloon is a county inhabited by 12 ethnic minorities, mainly Tibetan, Han and Yi, with Hui, Miao, Bai, Yao, Qiang, Tujia and other ethnic minorities.