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.
Lu'an is a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province. Located in the west of Anhui Province, known as "Gaocheng" for short, located between the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains, the west wing of the Yangtze River Delta economic zone, the geographical meaning of "West Anhui" specifically refers to Liu'an. Liu'an is located in Jianghuai, with Wu Yue in the east, Jingchu in the west and the Central Plains in the north; the terrain is high in the southwest and flat in the northeast, showing a trapezoidal distribution; it belongs to the transition zone from the north subtropical zone to the warm temperate zone, with significant monsoons and four distinct seasons. In 2017, the city has a total area of 15451 square kilometers and a registered population of 5.882 million. It has jurisdiction over 3 districts and 4 counties. The name of Lu'an began with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, taking the first words of six counties in Hengshan, Anfeng and Anfeng, and other Hengshan countries as Lu'an, with the meaning of "peace in six places, never rebellion". Because Shun Feng Gao Tao in six, so later generations called Liu'an