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.
Yiyang, alias "Silver City", "Lido" and "hometown of Badminton", is a prefecture-level city of Hunan Province, located on the south bank of Dongting Lake in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, located in the north of Hunan Province, at the eastern end of Xuefeng Mountain and its remaining vein belt. It is an important member of the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, one of the core cities around Dongting Lake eco-economic circle, and one of the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan 35th urban agglomeration. It has successively won provincial garden cities and national forest cities. National health city, national civilized city nominated city, historical and cultural city of Hunan Province and other titles, has been a rich "land of fish and rice" in the south of the Yangtze River since ancient times. Yiyang City has jurisdiction over 3 counties (Anhua County, Taojiang County,.