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.
Kashgar, one of the five regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is based in Kashgar. Surrounded by mountains on three sides and open on one side, it belongs to the warm temperate continental arid climate zone, with four distinct seasons and long light, with a total area of 162000 square kilometers, under the jurisdiction of 1 city and 11 counties, and a total population of 4.6497 million in 2017. The ancient Kashgar area is known as "Shule" and "Shu Fu", including ancient Shule (present-day Kashgar City, Shufu County, Shule County, Jiashi County), Puli (present-day Tashkurgan), Shacha, Yinai (present-day Yingjisha and Aktao), Wuhe House (present-day Tashkurgan), Xinight (present-day Yecheng) and other places. As the traffic hub of the ancient Silk Road, Kashgar is an international commercial port where Chinese and foreign businessmen gather, and it is also the only national historical and cultural city in Xinjiang.