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.
Leling, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Dezhou City, Shandong Province, is located at the junction of two provinces and four cities of Shandong and Hebei (Dezhou-Binzhou-Cangzhou-Jinan); it is part of the North China Plain, alluvial from the Yellow River and flat; there are Zhangwei River, Magee River and Dehuixin River; it is a warm temperate semi-humid continental monsoon climate with four distinct seasons; it has 4 streets, 9 towns and 3 townships under its jurisdiction, with a total population of 724000 in 2018. In addition, Leling is also a national intellectual property rights strong county project demonstration county (district). In 2018, the regional GDP of Leling City reached 27.962 billion yuan, an increase of 7.5% over 2017 in terms of comparable prices. On December 7, 2018, it was selected into the cultural tourism charm list of 2018 "Charming Chinatown". The second batch of water-saving society construction up to the standard county (district). ..