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.
Mengla County, one of the counties under the jurisdiction of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, is located in the southeast of Xishuangbanna Autonomous Prefecture, with a total area of 7056 square kilometers. Mengla County is half-covered by Laos in the east and south, facing Myanmar across the Lancang River in the southwest, Jinghong City, the capital of the Autonomous Prefecture in the northwest, and Jiangcheng Hani and Yi Autonomous County in Pu'er City to the north. In 2010, the total population of Mengla County was 281700. Mengla County is one of the counties inhabited by ethnic minorities. A total of 26 ethnic minorities thrive here, accounting for 70% of the total population of the county. The main ethnic minorities are Dai, Hani, Yao and Yi. In 2013, Mengla County had jurisdiction over 7 towns and 3 townships (including 2 ethnic townships), with a total of 4 communities and 52 administrative villages. In 2011, Mengla County completed