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.
Zichang City, which is directly under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi Province and managed by Yan'an City, is located in the middle of the Loess Plateau, Hengshan District to the north, Zizhou County and Qingjian County to the east, Yanchuan County and Yanan County to the south, Ansai District and Jingbian County to the west, between longitude 109o1158 "- 110o0120022" east and latitude 36 °593030 "- 37 °300000N, with a total area of 2405 square kilometers. The county seat is 93 kilometers away from Yan'an and 430 kilometers away from the provincial capital Xi'an. In 31 (1942), in memory of the national hero Xie Zichang, he changed his name to Zichang County, the hometown of Xie Zichang, the foothold of the long March of the Central Red Army and the starting place of the Anti-Japanese Eastern Expedition. The late agrarian revolution was the seat of the CPC Central Committee and the Chinese Soviet government, and after the founding of the people's Republic of China.