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.
Shanxi, referred to as "Jin", the provincial administrative district of the people's Republic of China, the capital of Taiyuan, is located in North China. Shanxi is bounded by 34 °34km north latitude and 114o 14km east longitude, bordering Hebei to the east, Shaanxi to the west, Henan to the south and Inner Mongolia to the north, with a total area of 156700 square kilometers. The topography of Shanxi Province is a parallelogram oblique to the southwest, which is a typical mountain plateau covered by loess, which is high in the northeast and low in the southwest. The internal ups and downs of the plateau, vertical and horizontal river valleys, landforms have mountains, hills, platforms, plains, mountain areas account for 80.1% of the total area. Shanxi Province straddles the Yellow River and Haihe River, and the river belongs to the self-produced outflow type. Shanxi Province is located in the inland of the middle latitudes and belongs to the temperate continent.