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.
Guanling Buyi and Miao Autonomous County, located in the middle of Guizhou Province, belonging to Anshun City, is located in the slope zone inclined to the hills of Guangxi on the south side of the ridge slope in the eastern part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The northeast and northwest are adjacent to Zhenning Autonomous County and Liuzhi Special Zone, while the southwest is bounded by Beipanjiang and Qinglong, Xingren and Zhenfeng counties. The total area is 1468 square kilometers, and the total population of the county is 323092 (2013), of which 197571 are ethnic minorities. There are 22 ethnic groups living in Buyi, Miao, Han, Gelo, Yi and so on. The county people's government is stationed in Guansuo town. In Guanling County, there is the highest bridge in China, the Baling River Bridge, the national agricultural tourism demonstration site Mucheng River rural tourism area, and the Huajiang Grand Canyon Scenic spot known as the fissure of the earth. In 2013, students were born in Guanling Buyi and Miao Autonomous County.