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Puebla

Puebla is a state in with scenic mountain landscapes dotted with snow-capped peaks and a few smoking volcanoes. Several important archaeological sites are in the state, including the great pyramid at .
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is a city in . It is in the Valley, surrounded by volcanoes and snow-capped mountains, slightly over 110 km south-east of Mexico City.

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is a good-size city of almost 300,000 people in Puebla. It is the second largest city in the state and is known for its nearby poultry farms and the rural scenery of the Balsas River Valley.

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is a city in Puebla state, 15 km west of the . It is a mid-size city with a population of about 150,000. The Great Pyramid of is the largest pyramid on a platform in the world.

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, officially known as de Francisco Javier Mina, is a small city in the state of Puebla, . It is located 12 kilometres south of the state capital Puebla, Puebla, at a height of 2,150 metres above sea level.

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is a small town in the state of . It calls itself, de Flores and informally The city of flowers. Flowers are taken seriously here.

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is a scenic small town in Puebla. It has a colorful downtown core, waterfalls and other natural scenery, and some traditional restaurants with tasty regional cuisine. It is a popular weekend destination that is one of Mexico's Pueblos Magicos.

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is an historic small town in the northern reaches of Puebla, Mexico. The area around town is hilly as the town lies in an area of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range that's locally known as the Sierra Norte.

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, officially known as de Juarez, is a small town in the mountains of western Puebla known for its historical landmarks and the natural beauty of its mountain forests and rivers.

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is a quaint village in the mountains of northwest . Sometimes described as part of the Huasteca region, the town is actually home to a large Otomi and Nahua population.

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is a historic small city in the Central Mexican state of . Known as the "cradle of evangelization" because it was the first area in which the Franciscan missionaries built a church and monastery.

is a small village in the rural hills of Puebla in eastern Mexico. The town is known for its rugged outdoor scenery and for active outdoor explorations.

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is a scenic colonial town in the highlands of northern Puebla state in Central Mexico. The town has lots of white colonial buildings with dark red bands painted across the bottoms, set among steep cobblestone streets.

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is a scenic small city in the mountainous Sierra Norte region of northern Puebla, . The city is known for its colonial central core and its natural beauty with mountains, forests, rivers, and waterfalls. It is one of Mexico's .

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is a small city of about 62,000 people in the highlands of western Puebla. It is a quiet city that was once the boyhood home of Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho. The town is one of Mexico's designated .

is a small town in the eastern Mexico state of Puebla. It is rich in history with its early mining and wrought iron industries during the colonial era, involvement in the Mexican War of Independence, and key roles fighting the French army in the French incursion of 1862.

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, also known as Caltona to some indigenous, is a large archaeological site of about 12 square kilometers. It is a 2,000 year old ancient Olmec city that was once home to up to 80,000 people.

Puebla

Latitude of center
18.8333° or 18° 50′ north
Longitude of center
-98° or 98° west
Population
6,580,000
Elevation
1,704 metres (5,591 feet)
Abbreviation
“PUE”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305626605
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3521082
Wiki­data ID
Q79923
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Puebla” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ولاية بويبلا”
  • Arabic: “ولايه بويبلا”
  • Aragonese: “Estato de Puebla”
  • Aragonese: “Puebla”
  • Armenian: “Պուեբլա”
  • Asturian: “Puebla”
  • Aymara: “Puebla Istadu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Puebla ştatı”
  • Balinese: “Puebla”
  • Basque: “Puebla”
  • Bavarian: “Puebla”
  • Belarusian: “Пуэбла (штат)”
  • Belarusian: “Пуэбла”
  • Belarusian: “Пуэбля”
  • Belarusian: “штат Пуэбла”
  • Bengali: “পুয়েব্লা”
  • Breton: “Puebla”
  • Bulgarian: “Пуебла”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Puebla”
  • Cebuano: “Estado de Puebla”
  • Chechen: “Пуэбла”
  • Cheyenne: “Puebla”
  • Chinese: “Puebla Chiu”
  • Chinese: “普埃布拉州”
  • Cornish: “Puebla”
  • Croatian: “Puebla”
  • Czech: “Puebla”
  • Danish: “Puebla”
  • Dutch: “Puebla”
  • Esperanto: “Puebla”
  • Esperanto: “Pŭeblo”
  • Estonian: “Puebla osariik”
  • Finnish: “Puebla”
  • French: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla”
  • French: “État de Puebla”
  • French: “MX-PUE”
  • French: “Puebla”
  • Galician: “Estado de Puebla”
  • Galician: “Puebla”
  • Georgian: “პუებლა”
  • Georgian: “პუებლის შტატი”
  • German: “MX-PUE”
  • German: “Puebla”
  • Greek: “Πουέμπλα”
  • Guarani: “Puebla”
  • Gujarati: “પુએબ્લા”
  • Hausa: “Puebla”
  • Hebrew: “פואבלה”
  • Hindi: “प्यूएबला”
  • Hungarian: “Puebla”
  • Icelandic: “Puebla (fylki)”
  • Icelandic: “Puebla”
  • Iloko: “Puebla”
  • Indonesian: “Puebla”
  • Interlingua: “Puebla”
  • Irish: “Puebla”
  • Italian: “Puebla”
  • Japanese: “プエブラ”
  • Japanese: “プエブラ州”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಯುಬ್ಲಾ”
  • Korean: “푸에블라주”
  • Ladino: “Puebla”
  • Latin: “Puebla”
  • Latvian: “Puebla”
  • Lithuanian: “Puebla”
  • Lithuanian: “Pueblos valstija”
  • Macedonian: “Пуебла”
  • Malagasy: “Puebla”
  • Malay: “Puebla”
  • Maltese: “Puebla”
  • Marathi: “पेब्ला राज्य”
  • Marathi: “पेब्ला”
  • Mazanderani: “پوئبلا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Puebla Chiu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Puebla (Bundesstoot)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Puebla”
  • Northern Luri: “پوئلبا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Puebla”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delstaten Puebla”
  • Norwegian: “Puebla”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Puebla”
  • Ossetian: “Пуэблæ (штат)”
  • Ossetian: “Пуэблæ”
  • Pampanga: “Puebla”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੁਐਬਲਾ”
  • Persian: “پوئبلا”
  • Piemontese: “Puebla”
  • Polish: “Puebla”
  • Portuguese: “Estado de Puebla”
  • Portuguese: “Puebla”
  • Quechua: “Puebla suyu”
  • Romanian: “Puebla”
  • Romansh: “Puebla”
  • Russian: “Пуэбла (штат)”
  • Russian: “Пуэбла”
  • Russian: “Свободный и Суверенный штат Пуэбла”
  • Sardinian: “Poubra”
  • Sardinian: “Puebla”
  • Scots: “Puebla”
  • Serbian: “Estado de Puebla”
  • Serbian: “Држава Пуебла”
  • Serbian: “Пуебла”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Država Puebla”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Puebla”
  • Sinhala: “පුඑබ්ලා”
  • Sinhala: “පුවෙබ්ලා ප්‍රාන්තය, මෙක්සිකෝව”
  • Slovak: “Puebla”
  • Slovenian: “Puebla”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Puebla”
  • Spanish: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla”
  • Spanish: “La Poderosa”
  • Spanish: “Poblano”
  • Spanish: “Pue”
  • Spanish: “Puebla”
  • Swahili: “Puebla”
  • Swedish: “Puebla”
  • Tagalog: “Estado ng Puebla”
  • Tagalog: “Puebla”
  • Tajik: “Иёлати Пуэбла”
  • Tamil: “புவெப்லா”
  • Tamil: “பூஎப்ளா”
  • Tatar: “Пвебла (штат)”
  • Tatar: “Пвебла”
  • Telugu: “పుయెబ్లా”
  • Thai: “Puebla”
  • Thai: “รัฐปวยบลา”
  • Tumbuka: “Puebla”
  • Turkish: “Puebla”
  • Ukrainian: “Пуебла (штат)”
  • Ukrainian: “Пуебла”
  • Urdu: “پوئبلا”
  • Uzbek: “Puebla”
  • Venetian: “Puebla”
  • Vietnamese: “Puebla”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Puebla”
  • Welsh: “Puebla”
  • Western Panjabi: “پیبلا”
  • Wu Chinese: “普埃布拉州”
  • Yue Chinese: “普埃布拉州”
  • “Kwetlaxkoapan”
  • “Kwetlaxkoapan Tlahtohkayotl”
  • “Kwetlaxkoapan Tlatilantli”
  • “Mahkawtok Tlahtohkayotl tlen Kwetlaxkoapan”
  • “Mahkawtok Tlatilantli tlen Kwetlaxkoapan”
  • “Puebla”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Puebla”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.