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.
Ruoqiang County, under the jurisdiction of Bayingoleng Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, is located in the southeast of Bazhou, on the southeast edge of Taklimakan Desert, longitude 86 °45 °E, latitude 36 °~ 41 °23'N. It is bordered by Qiemo County in the west, Yuli County and Shanshan County and Hami City in the north, Gansu Province and Qinghai Province in the east, and Tibet Autonomous region in the south, with a land area of 202300 square kilometers, which is the largest county in the country (about the size of two Zhejiang provinces). The county people's government is stationed in Ruoqiang Town, 894 kilometers away from Urumqi and 444 kilometers away from Korla, the state capital. Ruoqiang County has been the second strategic passage from the mainland to Central Asia and Xinjiang to the mainland since ancient times, and it was also the necessary route of the ancient "Silk Road." The county has jurisdiction over two management committees,