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.
Lichuan County, Xiazhou County, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province, is located in the east-central part of Jiangxi Province, at the western foot of the middle part of the Wuyi Mountains. Lichuan County is adjacent to the four counties of Guangze, Shaowu, Taining and Jianning in Fujian Province and the three counties of Nancheng, Nanfeng and Zixi, which also belong to Fuzhou. Fuyin Expressway and Xiangshan Railway pass through the border, which is one of the eastern gates from Jiangxi to Fujian. It covers an area of 1728 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 6 towns, 8 townships and 1 reclamation farm, with a total population of 250000 (2017). The natural distribution can be summarized as "seven mountains and one water half field, half road and manor". In 2015, Lichuan County completed a GDP of 6.04 billion yuan, an increase of 9 percent over 2014, and the sown area of grain was 367000 mu, an increase of 0.37 percent over 2014. Lichuan County was selected in 2018 for its oil painting on January 9, 2019.