Puebla

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Puebla

Location

Statistics
Capital	Puebla
Area	33,902 km² Ranked 21st
Population (2005 census)	5,383,133 Ranked 5th
HDI (2004)	0.7598 - medium Ranked 25th
Governor (2005-2011)	Mario Marín Torres (PRI)
Federal Deputies	PAN: 12 PRI: 4
Federal Senators	PAN: 2 PRI: 1
ISO 3166-2 Postal abbr.	MX-PUE Pue.

The Mexican state of Puebla is located in the center of the country, to the east of Mexico City. It shares its name with its capital and main city, Puebla.

The state of Puebla borders the states of Veracruz to the east, Hidalgo, México, Tlaxcala, and Morelos to the west, and Guerrero and Oaxaca to the south. The state covers an area of about 33,919 km². The terrain is mostly mountainous. In 2003 the estimated population was 5,377,800 people.

In addition to the city of Puebla, the state includes the cities of Tehuacán, Atlixco, Cholula, and the towns of Acatlán, Chignahuapan, Chipilo, Ciudad Serdán, Cuetzalán, Izúcar de Matamoros and Teziutlán.

1 Municipalities
2 Major communities
3 Education
4 External links

[edit] Municipalities

Puebla is divided into 217 municipalities (municipios), 7 socio-economic regions, 16 federal districts and 26 local districts. See municipalities of Puebla.

[edit] Major communities

[edit] Education

Some of universities located in Puebla are: Universidad de las Américas, Universidad Iberoamericana, BUAP, UPAEP, ITESM and Spanish Institute of Puebla.