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.
Lishu County, which belongs to Siping City, Jilin Province, is located in the southwest of Jilin Province, located in the hinterland of Songliao Plain, bounded by Liaohe River to the east of Gongzhuling City in the east, Shuangliao City in the north, Changtu County in Liaoning Province in the west and Siping City in the south. It is between 123 °45 degrees east longitude 124 °53 kilometers east longitude and 43 °02 degrees north latitude, 43 °46 degrees north latitude. The total area is 4209 square kilometers. The terrain is high in the southeast and low in the northwest. Low mountains and hills in the south, wavy plains in the middle, and East Liaohe alluvial plain in the north. Lishu established a county in the fourth year of Guang Xu of the Qing Dynasty (1878), formerly known as "Fenghua County". It was once the birthplace of the Qing Emperor Nuerhachi "Fujin", the birthplace of Empress Dowager Xiaocigao, the birth mother of Empress Taiji and the ancestral place of the Empress Dowager Cixi. Lishu County has the reputation of "Northeast granary" and "Songliao Pearl". As of 201