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.
Siyang is located in Subei Plain, one of the "Ten New Tianfu" in China, belongs to the Yangtze River Delta region, is the Huaihai Economic Circle, the Yangtze River Delta Economic Circle and the cross radiation area along the canal town axis. Siyang faces the hometown of Zhou Enlai Huai'an to the east, Suqian the hometown of King Xiang to the west, Shuyang, the hometown of flowers and plants to the north, and Hongze Lake to the south, facing Sihong, Hongze and Xuyi across the lake. The Siyang section of the Grand Canal of China (the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the ancient Yellow River heritage site) is on the World Heritage list. It has the reputation of "plain, forest and sea, Xanadu". Siyang has a history of more than 5000 years of civilization and more than 2000 years of history of establishing a county, where the north and south cultures are integrated. Siyang was once the capital of Sishui in the Western Han Dynasty more than two thousand years ago. It has been established at the county level in 2233 years, and it was crowned twice in the Western Han Dynasty, which was called "Surabaya" in history, which lasted for 134 years. Siyang is China.