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.
Xinyuan County is located in the northwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, at the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain, at the eastern end of Yili River Valley, and in the Gongnai River Valley. It starts from Aiken Daban in the east, is adjacent to Gongliu County and Hejing County in the south, and is bounded by Nilak County, Shawan County and Hejing County in the northeast. The total population is 316002 (2012). There are 34 ethnic groups, including Kazakh, Han, Uygur and Hui. The name of the county is located in the upper reaches of the Gongnai River, taking another "new source", which means newly reclaimed grassland or newly developed wilderness. The Kazakh language is called Gong Naisi, which means "Xiangyang" (according to textual research, it is Turkic, and later evolved from Mongolian and Kazakh). The geographical coordinates are 82 °28 east longitude, 84 °56 east longitude, 43 °03 north latitude, 43 °40 'north latitude, high east and low west, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and open to the west. It is about 196 km long from east to west and about 196 km wide in the middle.