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.
Weixin County, which belongs to Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, is located in the joint of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces. It is commonly known as the "three provinces of chicken singing". During the long March, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army held a famous "Taxi meeting" here. The county covers an area of nearly 1400 square kilometers, with more than 420,000 people of Han, Yi and other ethnic groups (2010). Weixin is a typical mountain county, whose agriculture is mainly corn, rice and flue-cured tobacco. Weixin County has Guandoushan stone carving group, Taxi conference site and large-scale Tiantai Mountain karst cave, Fan people hanging coffin and Tianxing National Forest Park. On April 30, 2019, the people's Government of Yunnan Province decided that Weixin County would withdraw from the sequence of poor counties.