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.
Yongren County is the county under the jurisdiction of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province. It is the mountainous county with the largest number of Yi people in Chuxiong Prefecture. It is located in the north-central part of Yunnan and the fortress of Yunnan. It is the north gate of Yunnan for economic development in Sichuan and Yunnan. Yongren County has a total area of 2189 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 4 townships and 3 towns. At the end of 2012, there were 110800 permanent residents in Yongren County, with a birth rate of 11.43 ‰, a mortality rate of 7.23 ‰ and a natural growth rate of 4.20 ‰. On February 2, 2019, it was rated as a county-level national advanced unit of traditional Chinese medicine by the State Administration of traditional Chinese Medicine. On April 30, 2019, the people's Government of Yunnan Province decided that Yongren County would withdraw from the sequence of poor counties.