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.
Pinghe County (ancient Pinghe County, Zhangzhou Capital), under the jurisdiction of Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, is located in the southwest of Zhangzhou, connected with Fujian and Guangdong provinces and eight counties, known as the "thoroughfare of eight counties". There are Fuzhao Expressway, Yunping Expressway (under construction), 207 Provincial Highway, 309 Provincial Highway and other trunk lines. In ancient times, Pinghe was the city of Yangzhou, Zhou was the land of seven Min, and Ming Zhengde bought a county in the thirteenth year of Ming Zhengde (1518), meaning "Keping and human harmony". The key hometown of overseas Chinese and the ancestral place of Taiwan compatriots in Fujian Province is not only an economically underdeveloped county, but also a coastal economic open county; Pinghe County is also one of the key hometown of overseas Chinese in Fujian Province, but also one of the important ancestral places of Taiwan compatriots; the former central Soviet area county and the province's key old base county. Pinghe County has an area of 2328.6 square kilometers, ranking first in Zhangzhou. Under the jurisdiction of 16 townships (farms), 240