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.
Zheng'an County is the lower jurisdiction county of Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, which is located in the northeast of Zunyi City. It is the frontier of Chongqing and the important economic and cultural intersection area of southern Chongqing and northern Guizhou. It is known as the "gateway to northern Guizhou". Zheng'an County is located in the north of Guizhou Province, bordering Nanchuan District of Chongqing to the north, Daozhen County and Wuchuan County in the northeast, Fenggang County and Meitan County in the southeast, Suiyang County in the south and Tongzi County in the northwest. In 2017, Zheng'an County achieved a regional GDP of 10.06382 billion yuan, of which the added value of the primary industry was 2.86398 billion yuan, the secondary industry was 2.221 billion yuan, and the tertiary industry was 4.97884 billion yuan. The proportion of the three industrial structures in the gross domestic product is 28.4% in the primary industry, 22.1% in the secondary industry and 22.1% in the tertiary industry.