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.
Xinghai County is located in the southwest of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province, and is located in the core area of national nature conservation of "Sanjiangyuan". The county has a total area of 12100 square kilometers, facing Guinan and Tongde across the Yellow River in the east, Gonghe County in the north, Dulan County in Hercynian Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the west, and Maduo County and Maqin County in the south. It is 248 kilometers away from Xining, the capital of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and 103 kilometers away from Qiabu, capital of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The geographical coordinates are 34 °48 degrees north, 36 degrees 14 degrees north and 99 degrees 01 degrees east, 100 degrees 59 'east. The average elevation of Xinghai County is 3924 meters (Ziketan Town, where the county government is located, is 3303 meters above sea level). Although the highest point of the Ela Mountains is 5305 meters above sea level in Genergang, the lowest point is 2590 meters above sea level at the exit of the Yellow River in Heka Town. Full