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.
Kunshan, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, is hosted by Suzhou City. It has been more than 2200 years since Zilou County in the Qin Dynasty. Kunshan is the birthplace of Kunqu Opera, the ancestor of a hundred operas. Kunshan culture belongs to Wu-Yue culture, and the people of Kunshan belong to the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. In September 2010, Kunshan, Vienna, Singapore and other five cities won the UN Habitat Award of the year. In January 2016, Kunshan was named the first batch of "National Ecological Garden cities" by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. In 2018, Kunshan achieved a GDP of 383.206 billion yuan. In 2019, Kunshan was named one of the top 100 counties and cities with comprehensive strength in 2019, one of the top 100 green development counties in 2019, and one of the top 100 new urbanization quality counties and cities in 2019. The second batch of national agricultural products