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.
Qingshui County, under the jurisdiction of Tianshui City, Gansu Province, is located in the southeast of Gansu Province, northeast of Tianshui City, Niutou River Basin, a tributary of the Weihe River on the north bank of Longshan, southwest of Longshan; Longxian County, Baoji in the east, wheat accumulation area in the south, Qinan County in the west, and Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County in the north; it is located in the transitional zone from Longshan Mountain to Longxi Loess Plateau, with temperate continental monsoon climate; it has jurisdiction over 15 towns and 3 townships with a total area of 2012 square kilometers. The total population in 2018 is 332364. Qingshui was called Shangfu in ancient times and got the name of the county from "four Notes of Qingquan". It is the birthplace of Huangdi Xuanyuan, the first ancestor of Chinese humanities, the birthplace of Qin unified China, and the hometown of Zhao Chongguo in the Western Han Dynasty. Prehistoric culture, pre-Qin culture, Han and Tang culture, Song (Jin) and Yuan culture accumulation; the territory has been identified by the State Administration of Cultural relics as "Wei and Jin ancient city" and "not"