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.
Qingyang City, Gansu Province is under the jurisdiction of prefecture-level cities, commonly known as "Longdong", is located in the easternmost part of Gansu Province, at the confluence of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia provinces, Yanan City, Shaanxi Province in the east, Jingchuan County in Gansu Province and Changwu, Bin County and Xunyi County in Shaanxi Province in the south, Yulin City in Shaanxi Province and Wuzhong City in Ningxia to the north, and Guyuan City in Ningxia to the west. Qingyang City has a total area of 27119 square kilometers and a population of 2.2666 million (at the end of 2018). It has jurisdiction over one district and seven counties, and the municipal people's government is stationed in Xifeng District. In 2018, the GDP of Qingyang City reached 70.815 billion yuan. Qingyang City is one of the birthplaces of the early agricultural civilization of the Chinese nation, the hometown of "Huanjiang pterosaur" and "Yellow River ancient statue", the land of China's "first Paleolithic", and the birthplace of Chinese traditional medicine culture.