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.
Weixi Lisu Autonomous County is one of the counties under the jurisdiction of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, which is located in the northwest of Yunnan Province. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, this place has been an integral part of southwest China. The fortress of northwest Yunnan is one of the post transportation channels leading to India, Burma, Kangzang and Tibet, and it is also the meeting point of the "tea-horse exchange market" in ancient northwest Yunnan. As of 2014, Weixi County has jurisdiction over 3 towns and 7 townships, a total of 3 communities and 79 villages. At the end of 2012, the total population of Weixi Lisu Autonomous County was 154127, of which the agricultural population was 137717, accounting for 89.35% of the total population. In 2012, the total output value of Weixi Lisu Autonomous County reached 2.65673 billion yuan, and the proportion of the added value of primary, secondary and tertiary industries was 14.79, 32.93, 5.