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.
Tuquan County is one of the counties under the jurisdiction of Xingan in Inner Mongolia Autonomous region, which is renamed by Liquan County. Located in the southwest of Xingan, Inner Mongolia Autonomous region, it is located in the transitional zone between Songnen Plain and Horqin grassland in Daxing'an Mountains, and borders Taonan City, Jilin Province in the east. Tuquan County has a total area of 4889.5 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 6 towns and 6 townships. The total population is 303000, of which the agricultural population is 216000, living in 14 ethnic groups such as Han, Mongolia and Manchuria, and the population of ethnic minorities is 92500, accounting for 30.5% of the total population of the county. It is the autonomous region's key support to the old revolutionary base areas, the national poverty-stricken areas and the national key counties in poverty alleviation and development. In 2013, the GDP of Tuquan County was 6.06 billion yuan, an increase of 8.2% over the same period in 2012.