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.
Meitan County, which belongs to Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, is located in the north of Guizhou Province. The county seat is 58 kilometers away from the urban area of Zunyi, with a total area of 1864 square kilometers. The area is narrow from north to south, 25.5km wide from east to west, 96.5km long from north to south, with an average elevation of 972.7 meters, with a forest coverage rate of 60.08 per cent. It is a subtropical monsoon humid climate with an annual average temperature of 14.9 ℃. Meitan County is "the first county of tea industry in Guizhou", and its tea brands such as "Meitan Cuiya", "Zunyi Hong", "Guizhou Needle" and "Mejiang Cuipian" are famous in China. With fertile land, beautiful mountains and rivers and good ecology, it is known as "a pearl on the Guizhou Plateau" and "Yungui Xiao Jiangnan". The first batch of demonstration units for rural community construction across the country. 2016