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.
Lincang, a prefecture-level city in Yunnan Province, is located in the southwest of Yunnan Province, bordering Pu'er City in the east, Dali Prefecture in the north, Baoshan City in the west, and Myanmar in the southwest, located between the Lancang River and the Nujiang River. Located 598 kilometers from the provincial capital Kunming, the municipal government is a land shortcut from Kunming to Yangon, Myanmar, with three national ports and 17 passageways. Lincang is located in the southern extension of the Nushan Mountains in the Hengduan Mountains, which belongs to the longitudinal valley of western Yunnan. It has a monsoon climate in the subtropical low-latitude plateau and is rich in water resources. It is an important national hydropower energy base and an important sugar and wine production base in Yunnan, living in the world.