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.
Shucheng County, which belongs to Lu'an City, Anhui Province, is located in the central part of Anhui Province, the eastern foot of the Dabie Mountains, the shore of Chaohu Lake and Jianghuai. It is the intersection of Hefei, Lu'an and Anqing. Between 116o 26-#39;-117 °15-#39; and 31 °01-#39;-31 °34-#39;, it is 86 km long from east to west and 49.5 km wide from north to south, with a total area of 2100 square km. Shucheng is one of the birthplaces of Chinese dragon culture and one of the thirteen birthplaces of Liangzhu culture in China. In ancient times, there were Liu Xin in the Western Han Dynasty, Wen Weng, an educator, Zhou Yu, commander in chief of the Wu Army of the three Kingdoms, Li Gonglin, a great painter of the Song Dynasty, and Shang Shu of the Ministry of punishment in the Ming Dynasty.