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.
Suijiang County is located in the northeast edge of Yunnan Province, the south bank of Jinsha River, belonging to Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province. The geographic coordinates are 103 °47 east longitude 104 °16 mi, 28 °21 mi 28 °40 'north. Shuifu County in the east, Yanjin County in the south, Yongshan County in the southwest, and Pingshan County and Leibo County in Sichuan Province by the Jinsha River in the north; the east-west horizontal distance of the county is 48.5km, the north-south vertical distance is 36km, and the total area is 882square kilometers. the total population is 153091 (2010), and the county government is stationed in cities and towns. On April 30, 2019, the people's Government of Yunnan Province decided that Suijiang County would withdraw from the sequence of poor counties.