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.
Urumqi, referred to as Urumqi, formerly known as Dihua, is the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, the political, economic, cultural, scientific, educational and transportation center of Xinjiang, and the largest city farthest from the sea in the world. Approved by the State Council, it is an important central city in northwest China and an international trade center facing Central Asia and West Asia. By 2018, the city had jurisdiction over seven districts and one county, with a total area of 14216.3 square kilometers, a built-up area of 436 square kilometers, a resident population of 3.5058 million, an urban population of 2.6157 million, and a urbanization rate of 74.61 percent. Urumqi is located in northwest China, central Xinjiang, the center of the Eurasian continent, the northern foot of the middle part of the Tianshan Mountains, the southern margin of the Junggar Basin, adjacent to the countries of Central Asia, known as the "capital of the heart of Asia", is the second Eurasian University.