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.
Ying County is located in the north of Shanxi Province and east of Shuozhou City. It covers an area of 1667 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 3 towns and 9 townships with a population of 300000 (2012). The county government is stationed in Jincheng. The plan of the county is parallelogram between 112 °58 east longitude and 113 °37 east longitude and 39 °17 east longitude and 39 °45 'north latitude. It is adjacent to Hunyuan County to the east, Shanyin County to Pingshuo to the west, Huairen County to the north, Fanzhi County and Dai County to the south. It is a continental climate in the north temperate zone, affected by the monsoon, with four distinct seasons, with an average annual temperature of about 7 ℃ and annual rainfall of 360mm. The first frost period is in late September and the frost-free period is 100 to 140 days. There are world-famous wooden pagodas in the north of Yingxian County. Yingxian wooden Pagoda is also called Buddha Palace Temple Sakyamuni Pagoda. Together with the Eiffel Tower and the leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, it is called the three strange towers in the world. twenty