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.
Shangsi County, which belongs to Fangchenggang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, is located at the northern foot of Shiwandashan in the south of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, between longitude 107 °33 °east and latitude 21 °44 °22 °22 'north. It is bordered by Qinzhou City in the east, Fangcheng Autonomous County in the south, Ningming County in the west, Fusui County in the north and Yongning County in the northeast. The county is about 68.1km long from east to west and 49.5km wide from north to south, with a total area of 2816 square kilometers, accounting for 1.2 per cent of the total area of the autonomous region. The county seat is only 100 kilometers away from Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, 116 kilometers away from Fangchenggang, the largest seaport in Guangxi, and 130 kilometers away from Dongxing City, an important border town in China. 2011 Tourism Ecology Specialty of China Ecological Society