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.
Zhuoni County is located in the eastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Zhuoni County is located in Gansu Province and the southeast of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, between 102 °40 degrees east longitude and 104 °02 east longitude and 34 °10 degrees north latitude. The total area is 5419.68 square kilometers. By the year 2000, it had jurisdiction over 1 town, 15 townships and 1 nationality township. Zhuoni County, with an average annual temperature of 4.6 degrees Celsius, is a plateau continental climate, cold and humid, the four seasons unknown. In 2012, Zhuoni County achieved a regional GDP of 1.068 billion yuan, an increase of 14.2% over 2011, and a large-caliber fiscal revenue of 124 million yuan, an increase of 11.84% over 2011. 2014. Zhuoni County achieved industrial added value of 125.95 million yuan in the first half of the year. The specialty of Zhuoni County is Tao inkstone and sheep.