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.
Nielam County belongs to Xigaze City, Tibet Autonomous region, between the Himalayas and the Ladaogangri Mountains, connecting with Dingri, Anren, Saga and Jilong counties in the east, north and west, and adjacent to the Kingdom of Nepal in the south. The area is 8684.39 square kilometers. In 2005, the county's GDP reached 178.1 million yuan, with a per capita GDP of 11657 yuan. By the end of 2005, the total population of Nie Lamu County was 15000, including Han, Hui, Tibetan and other ethnic minorities. Nie Lamu County has gold, precious stones, lead, coal and other mineral resources. On September 25, 2018, he won the honorary title of "2018 e-commerce into rural comprehensive demonstration county" of the Ministry of Commerce. In 2017, Nielamu County withdrew from poverty-stricken counties (districts).