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.
Qilin District, which belongs to Qujing City, Yunnan Province, is the seat of Qujing Municipal Government. It is located in the eastern part of Yunnan Province, in the middle of the eastern Yunnan Plateau, in the upper reaches of Nanpanjiang River, between 103 °29 degrees east longitude and 104 °14 degrees east longitude and 26 °06 degrees north latitude. It is 137km away from the provincial capital Kunming and covers an area of 1552.84 square kilometers. In 2017, Qilin District has a registered population of 749900, with a GDP of 63.3 billion yuan, and has jurisdiction over 13 streets and 3 towns. The terrain is high from east to west and low from north to south, with mountains, river valleys and hills interlaced with each other. The urban area is 1875 meters above sea level. Guiyang-Kunming Railway, National Highway 320 and National Highway 326 are distributed radially in the territory. Qilin District has been appraised as the national sustainable development experimental area, the national ecological demonstration area and the national science popularization demonstration area.