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.
Zhaodong City, a county-level city in Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province, is located in the middle of Songnen Plain in the southwest of Heilongjiang Province, between longitude 125 °22'E and latitude 46 °20'N, 53 km south from Harbin and 74 km north from Daqing, with a total area of 4332 square kilometers. Zhaodong City is located in China's rare-quot; cold black soil-quot; green agricultural area. It belongs to cold temperate climate, and the average accumulated temperature is 2772 ℃. Zhaodong is an important node city in the Harbin-Daqing-Qiqihar economic belt, located on the central axis of the Harbin-Daqing-Qiqihar industrial corridor, and an important stop of the Ha-Qi passenger dedicated line. It is the main breeding area of dairy cows, beef cattle, pigs, poultry and aquatic products in the province, and an important production base of national commodity grain and livestock products.