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.
Seda County is a county under the jurisdiction of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province. It is located in the northeast of Ganzi Prefecture, latitude 31 °38 mi 33 °20 N, longitude 98 °48 mi 101 °00'E. It is located at the intersection of Sichuan Province, Qinghai Province, Aba Prefecture, Ganzi Prefecture and Guoluo Prefecture of Qinghai Province, and the combination of Rangtang County, Ganzi County, Luhuo County, Shiqu County, Dari County and Banma County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in the east, Banma and Dari Counties in Qinghai Province in the north, and Ganzi and Luohuo Counties in Ganzi Prefecture in the west and south. In 2011, Seda County covers an area of 9338.98 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 2 towns, 15 townships and 134administrative villages, with a total population of 45661 at the end of the year, a birth rate of 11.09 ‰ and a natural population growth rate of 6.19 ‰. twenty