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.
Xichou County, a county under the jurisdiction of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, is located in the southeast of Yunnan Province, south-central of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture; the terrain rises from the middle to the west and is lower in the southeast; it belongs to the subtropical low-latitude mountain monsoon climate zone; the total area is 1506 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 2 towns and 7 townships; in 2017, the resident population is 263000, including 5 ethnic minorities. Xichou County has the Mausoleum of Martyrs in Southern Xinjiang, as well as Xiaoqiaogou Provincial Nature Reserve, Xiangping Mountain rare Botanical Garden, Lion Rock Cliff painting, and Xisa Immortal Cave Paleolithic sites. On September 25, 2018, he won the honorary title of "2018 e-commerce into rural comprehensive demonstration county" of the Ministry of Commerce. On April 30, 2019, the people's Government of Yunnan Province decided that Xichou County would withdraw from the sequence of poor counties. 2017