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.
Suileng County is located in the middle of Heilongjiang Province and in the northeast of Suihua City at the western foot of Xiaoxing'an Mountains. Suileng black pottery, a local specialty, is well-known in the country and is known as "the hometown of Chinese black pottery". Suileng County is bordered by Yichun City to the east, Qingan County to the southeast, North Forest region to the south and southwest, Bei'an City and Hailun City to the west and northwest, and Bei'an City and Xunke County to the northeast and north. The county has a total area of 4238 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 6 towns, 5 townships and 76 administrative villages with a population of 320000 (2011). Suileng Town, where the county government is based, is the political, economic and cultural center and transportation hub of the county, 195 kilometers away from the provincial capital Harbin, and Binbei Railway and National Highway 102 pass through the west of the county. There are Han, Korea, Manchu, Hui, Mongolia, Miao, Zhuang,