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.
Liaocheng, a prefecture-level city of Shandong Province, is located in the west of Shandong Province, facing Zhangwei River and Handan City and Xingtai City of Hebei Province in the west, Jindi River in the south and southeast, Jining City, Tai'an City, Jinan City and Henan Province in the south and southeast, and Dezhou City in the north and northeast. It lies between 115o 16km east longitude and 116km east longitude and 37o 02m north latitude, 114km east-west and 138km north-south, with a total area of 8715 square kilometers. More than 6000 years ago, Liaocheng had the ancient city of Dawenkou culture, which successively created prehistoric culture, canal culture, red culture and so on. Liaocheng is a national historical and cultural city, with more than 2700 places of interest and historic sites and more than 470 scenic spots with tourism development value. National key cultural relics protection units