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.
Pingba District, a municipal district of Anshun City, Guizhou Province, is located in the central part of Guizhou Province in southwest China. Zhijin County, Bijie City in the north, Guiyang, the provincial capital in the east, Xixiu District in the west, Shanghai-Kunming Expressway, Xiamen-Rong Expressway, Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway and other national transportation arteries run through the whole territory, which is an important transportation hub in Guizhou Province and even southwest China. It is known as the "golden corridor in the west and the cultural corridor in central Guizhou". With an area of 999 square kilometers and a total population of 358800 (2013), the government is stationed in Zhongshan South Road, Anping Street. In 2013, the GDP of Pingba District was 7.329 billion yuan, and the fixed assets investment of the whole society was 8.708 billion yuan. Pingba area is located in the typical karst landform area of China, with beautiful natural scenery and simple folk customs, mainly by the Han nationality.