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.
Naqu is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of the Tibet Autonomous region. Located in northern Tibet, between the Tanggula Mountains, the Nianqing Tanggula Mountains and the Gangdise Mountains, it is about 1156 kilometers from east to west, 760km from north to south, Changdu to the east, Ali to the west, Lhasa and Linzhi to the south, and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region and Qinghai Province to the north. The total area is 369674 square kilometers. Located in the southern slope of Tanggula Mountain and the northern foot of Nianqing Tanggula Mountain, located at the eastern end of the Qiangtang Plateau, the mountains are continuously distributed, divided by many lake basins and dotted with lakes. The average elevation is more than 4500 meters. Cold and anoxic, dry climate, annual gale day of about 100 days, annual average temperature of-2.1℃, the coldest can reach minus 30,40 degrees, annual sunshine hours of more than 2886 hours. The fifth day of the year