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.
Pinglu District is under the jurisdiction of Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, with geographical coordinates between 112 °41 °east longitude and 39 °21 °Mel 39 °58 'north latitude. Located between the Great Wall inside and outside the northwest of Shanxi Province, it is located in the northern border of Shanxi Province, bordering Qingshuihe and Helinger in Inner Mongolia Autonomous region, Pianguan and Shenchi counties in Xinzhou City in the southwest, Shuocheng District in the south, Shanyin in the east, and Youyu in the northeast. 69.5km from north to south and 67.9km from east to west, with a triangular shape, has a total land area of 2314 square kilometers and a total population of 185000 (2005). It has jurisdiction over 11 townships, 2 towns and 352 administrative villages. Formerly known as Pinglu County, when the State Council approved Shuozhou as a prefecture-level city in Shanxi Province in 1988, the county was changed to the area under the jurisdiction of Shuozhou. There is Shuobei Xiongcheng.