1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Mexico
Compare this sourced profile of Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza—1,692,181, America/Mexico_City, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of the State of Puebla, Mexico.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza is GeoNames ID 3521081. Its recorded administrative path is Puebla → Mexico, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Puebla occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza ranks 261 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Mexico entries it ranks 4; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 34. Its 1,692,181 population value is 2.09 times the 808,416 median for the country cohort and 2.07 times the 816,326 regional median. Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Mexico population cohort. Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl at 93.43 km with 1,077,208 recorded people; Iztapalapa at 96.074 km with 1,835,486 recorded people; Tlalpan at 103.987 km with 574,577 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 10.557 km. Compared with Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza's recorded population is 1.57 times as large. Against Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl follows Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza's. Against Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, Iztapalapa follows Iztapalapa → Mexico City → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza's. Against Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, Tlalpan follows Tlalpan → Mexico City → Mexico in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Mexico cohort, uses the shared America/Mexico_City identifier, and carries populated place rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 669 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3521081, the coordinate pair 19.0478 / 98.2072, country rank 4 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 3530589 at 93.43 km bind Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza's reference point is 19.0478° north and 98.2072° west. The IANA identifier America/Mexico_City is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza's closest other entries in this atlas are Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl (93.43 km), Iztapalapa (96.074 km), Tlalpan (103.987 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.