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.
Yexian County, located in the southwest-central part of Henan Province, is the "rock salt capital of China". It has jurisdiction over 3 streets, 9 towns, 6 townships, 880000 people (2011), with a total area of 1387 square kilometers. Yexian not only has a rich connotation of the county government of the Ming Dynasty, but also has a long history and profound cultural heritage. In ancient times, it was the land of Yuzhou, the state of Zhou, and the capital of the State of Chu in the Spring and Autumn period. Yexian is the fiefdom of Shen Zhuliang, the first ancestor surnamed Ye, a famous statesman and military strategist, and it is the ancestral land of 23 million Ye descendants in the world. Yexian County is rich in mineral resources, with salt as the most, with an area of 400square kilometers and reserves of 330 billion tons. It ranks first in the grade of well and mineral salt in the country and is named quot;-quot;, the rock salt capital of China by the National Mining Federation. May 2019