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.
Songxi County (ancient belongs to Songxi County of Jianning Prefecture) belongs to Nanping City, Fujian Province, located at the junction of Fujian and Zhejiang, to the southeast of Wuyi Mountain. In ancient times, there are many Qiao pines along both sides of the river, which is known as "Baili Pine Yinbi Changxi", hence the name of Songxi County. Songxi County has a total area of 1043 square kilometers and a total population of 168000 in 2016. It is 48 kilometers east to Qingyuan County, 27 kilometers southeast to Zhenghe County, 107 kilometers west to Jianyang County, and 75 kilometers north to Pucheng County. Songxi County has jurisdiction over 1 street, 2 towns and 6 townships. Songxi County was named "the hometown of Chinese Folk printmaking Art" by the Ministry of Culture in May 2000. On July 22, 2016, Songxi County passed the examination and acceptance of the national ecological county of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and became the first national ecological county in northern Fujian.