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.
Yuxi City, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Yunnan Province, is located in the middle of Yunnan Province, with geographical coordinates between 23 °19 °N, 24 °53'N and 101 °16 °E, 103 °09'E. It borders Kunming, the provincial capital in the north, Puer City in the southwest, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the southeast and Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the northwest, with a total area of 15285 square kilometers. The topography of Yuxi is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with staggered distribution of mountains, valleys, plateaus and basins, with a maximum horizontal distance of 172km and a maximum vertical distance of 163.5 km. Most of the area is 1,500 meters above sea level. The annual average temperature is 16.4 ℃, the climate is three-dimensional and diverse, there is no severe cold in winter, there is no heat in summer, the four seasons are like spring, dry and wet. Yuxi is the hometown of Nie er, the hometown of clouds and smoke, the hometown of lanterns and the water town of the plateau.