Puebla

The city of Puebla ? officially the heroic city of Puebla de Zaragoza, and nicknamed Puebla de los Ángeles or La Angelópolis ? is the capital and largest city of the state of the same name with a population of 1,485,941. The metropolitan area of the city, however, extends over 10 municipalities of the state of Puebla and 13 of the state of Tlaxcala, and with a population of 2.1 million it is fourth most populated metropolitan area in Mexico and one of the largest in North America. Puebla is an important industrial, cultural and educational center of Mexico for the central and south-east regions. It is also one of the oldest colonial cities in the continent.