Puebla
Puebla
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<catset>Category="States of Mexico"</catset><dl> <dt><dd><i><b>Puebla</b></i> is the name of both a state in Mexico and that state's capital city. This article is about the state. For the city, see: <a href="Puebla, Puebla">Puebla, Puebla</a>.<i> </dl><p><right><p><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width=240 style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"><tr><th align=center bgcolor=ccccff colspan=3><b>Estado de Puebla</b></th></tr><tr><td align=center colspan=3>[image]</td></tr><tr><th align=center bgcolor=ccccff colspan=3>Location</th></tr><tr><td align=center colspan=3>[image]</td></tr><tr><th align=center bgcolor=ccccff colspan=3>Statistics</th></tr><tr><th align=left valign=top>Capital</th><td colspan=2 valign=top><a href="Puebla, Puebla">Puebla</a></td></tr><tr><th align=left valign=top>Area</th><td colspan=2 valign=top>33,902 <a href="Square metre">km²</a><br><a href="List of Mexican states by area">Ranked 21st</a></td></tr><tr><th align=left valign=top>Population<small>(2000 census)</small></th><td colspan=2 valign=top>5,070,350<br><a href="List of Mexican states by population">Ranked 5th</a></td></tr><tr><th align=left valign=top><a href="List of Mexican state governors">Governor</a><small>(2005-2011)</small></th><td colspan=2 valign=top>Mario Marín Torres (PRI)</td></tr><tr><th align=left valign=top><a href="Chamber of Deputies of Mexico">Federal Deputies</a></th><td colspan=2 valign=top><a href="Institutional Revolutionary Party">PRI</a>: 10<br><a href="National Action Party (Mexico)">PAN</a>: 5</td></tr><tr><th align=left valign=top><a href="Senate of Mexico">Federal Senators</a></th><td colspan=2 valign=top>PRI: 2<br>PAN: 1</td></tr><tr><th align=left valign=top><a href="ISO 3166-2">ISO 3166-2</a><small>Postal abbr.</small></th><td colspan=2 valign=top>MX-PUE<br>Pue.</td></tr></table><p></right><p>The <a href="Mexico">Mexican</a> state of Puebla is located in the center of the country, to the east of <a href="Mexico City">Mexico City</a>.  It shares its name with its capital and main city, <a href="Puebla, Puebla">Puebla</a>.<p>The state of Puebla borders the states of <a href="Veracruz">Veracruz</a> to the east,  <a href="Hidalgo">Hidalgo</a>, <a href="Mexico (state)">México</a>, <a href="Tlaxcala">Tlaxcala</a>, and <a href="Morelos">Morelos</a> to the west,  and <a href="Guerrero">Guerrero</a> and <a href="Oaxaca">Oaxaca</a> to the south.  The state covers an area of about 33,919 km². The terrain is mostly mountainous. In <a href="2003">2003</a> the estimated population was 5,377,800 people.<p>In addition to the city of Puebla, the state includes the cities of <a href="Tehuacán">Tehuacán</a>, <a href="Atlixco">Atlixco</a> <a href="Cholula">Cholula</a>, and the towns of Acatlán, Chignahuapan, <a href="Chipilo">Chipilo</a>, Ciudad Serdán, Cuetzalán, Izúcar de Matamoros and <a href="Teziutlán">Teziutlán</a>.<h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">Municipalities</h2>Puebla is divided into 217 municipalities </i>(<a href="Municipality">municipios</a>), 7 socio-economic regions, 15 federal districts and 26 local districts''. See <a href="Municipalities of Puebla">Municipalities of Puebla</a>.<h2 style="margin: 0; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaaaaa; font-size: 150%;">External link</h2><ul> <li><font color=#700070> Government of the state of Puebla</font> (Spanish) <li>[ Puebla Map @ MexicoChannel.net] (Spanish) <li><font color=#700070> Detailed Puebla State Map @ Maps-of-Mexico.com</font> (English) </ul><p><center><p><table style="margin: 0 2em 0 2em;"><tr><th align=center width=100% style=" background:#efefef"><a href="States of Mexico">States</a> of <a href="Mexico">Mexico</a> </th><th>[image]</th></tr><tr><td align=center colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"><a href="Aguascalientes">Aguascalientes</a> | <a href="Baja California">Baja California</a> | <a href="Baja California Sur">Baja California Sur</a> | <a href="Campeche">Campeche</a> | <a href="Chiapas">Chiapas</a> | <a href="Chihuahua">Chihuahua</a> | <a href="Coahuila">Coahuila</a> | <a href="Colima">Colima</a> | <a href="Durango">Durango</a> | <a href="Guanajuato">Guanajuato</a> | <a href="Guerrero">Guerrero</a> | <a href="Hidalgo">Hidalgo</a> | <a href="Jalisco">Jalisco</a> | <a href="Mexico (state)">México</a> | <a href="Michoacán">Michoacán</a> | <a href="Morelos">Morelos</a> | <a href="Nayarit">Nayarit</a> | <a href="Nuevo León">Nuevo León</a> | <a href="Oaxaca">Oaxaca</a> | Puebla | <a href="Querétaro">Querétaro</a> | <a href="Quintana Roo">Quintana Roo</a> | <a href="San Luis Potosí">San Luis Potosí</a> | <a href="Sinaloa">Sinaloa</a> | <a href="Sonora">Sonora</a> | <a href="Tabasco">Tabasco</a> | <a href="Tamaulipas">Tamaulipas</a> | <a href="Tlaxcala">Tlaxcala</a> | <a href="Veracruz">Veracruz</a> | <a href="Yucatán">Yucatán</a> | <a href="Zacatecas">Zacatecas</a></td></tr><tr><td align=center colspan=2 style="font-size: 90%;"><b>Federal District</b>: <a href="Mexican Federal District">Mexican Federal District</a></td></tr></table><p></center>