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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.

Kuqa is a Turkic transliteration, a place name in Uygur language and a meaning of hutong. "it is named because it is an important street in the hinterland of southern Xinjiang." "Kuche" has been written in many ways since ancient times, such as "Qiu ci", "qu Zi", "qu Xian", "Jiuzi", "Ku fork" and so on. It was named Kuche in 1758. It is said that "Kuqa" is an ancient Qiuci language, meaning "the city of Qiuci people". Kuqa County, which belongs to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is located in the central and western part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, and belongs to the eastern end of Aksu region. The geographical location is between 40 °46 °N and 42 °35'N and 82 °35 °E and 84 °17'E. Kuqa County covers an area of 15200 square kilometers (2009). Kuqa County is a famous national historical and cultural city, with a large number of ancient city walls, temples, grottoes, beacons,
Travel Notes In Kuqa County
Cross the Tianshan Mountains, let your heart fly, magnificent travel, beautiful Xinjiang! (three)
I set up a tent in Bayinbulak Grassland last night. Dinner was braised pork, cold spicy red skin, pancakes, salted eggs, and milk tea powder bought in
Golden Wheatfield Business Hotel: Entering the Bloody Grand Canyon in Kuqa, Xinjiang
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Instructions for this guide Duku Highway + Yizhao Highway + self-driving around Yili Prefecture, the previous article (8 days before) has fully descr
Southern Xinjiang free travel 10 days 11 nights
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