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.
Songming County, which belongs to Kunming City, Yunnan Province, is located in the middle of Yunnan Province and in the northeast of Kunming City. It is a suburb county under the jurisdiction of Kunming City, 43 kilometers away from Kunming. It is bordered by Yiliang to the east, Kunming Guandu to the south, Fumin to the southwest, Xundian to the northwest and north, and Malone to the northeast. It covers an area of 1357.29 square kilometers with a total population of 339700. Songyang Town, where the government is stationed, is the political, economic and cultural center of Songming County. In 2012, the GDP reached 6.502 billion yuan, including 1.14 billion yuan for the primary industry, 3.55 billion yuan for the secondary industry and 1.76 billion yuan for the tertiary industry. Songming County is known as "granary in central Yunnan", "hometown of lanterns" and "hometown of dragons and lions". In November 2018, he was named on the list of China's 100 Happy Counties in 2018.