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.
Zhiduo County is a county under the jurisdiction of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, which is located in the southwest of the province, the central and western part of the state border, and bordered by Xinjiang and Tibet Autonomous region in the west. The county government is stationed in Jiaji Borough (in Duocai Township). The county is bordered by Yushu County in the east, Hercynian escrow District in the west, Qumalai County and Haixi County in the north, and Zaduo County in the south. 921 kilometers away from the provincial capital Xining, 195 miles from the state capital, 109 National Highway and Qinghai-Tibet Railway pass through the waist. By the end of 2007, the total population of the county had reached 28200, mainly Tibetans, accounting for 97.8% of the total population, as well as Han, Hui, Qala and other ethnic groups. The total land area is 80200 square kilometers and it has jurisdiction over 6 townships. In 2007, the county's GDP reached 208.587 million yuan. On December 29th, 2018, Zhiduo County was killed.