Short answers, pulled from the story.
Puebla de Zaragoza is in the southern part of Central Mexico, about 100 kilometers east southeast of Mexico City and about 220 kilometers west of the port of Veracruz. It sits in the Valley of Puebla, also called the Valley of Cuetlaxcoapan, surrounded by the mountains and volcanoes of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt.
Puebla was founded in 1531, with an official foundation date of the 16th of April 1531. It was built as a Spanish city in the Valley of Cuetlaxcoapan, not on the foundation of an existing indigenous city-state.
Puebla earned the nickname Angelópolis, or City of Angels, from a legend about the bishop Julián Garcés. He dreamed of a valley where angels descended from heaven and traced out a city, which gave the place its original name, Puebla de los Ángeles.
Puebla is famous for mole poblano, chiles en nogada and Talavera pottery, and its historic center was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. It is also a major industrial hub, home to the world's largest Volkswagen factory outside Germany, located in the Municipality of Cuautlancingo.
On the 5th of May 1862, during the French intervention in Mexico, Mexican forces under Ignacio Zaragoza defeated the French army under Count de Lorencez at the Battle of Puebla. The city was renamed Puebla de Zaragoza that year by decree of Benito Juárez, and the holiday Cinco de Mayo is a major annual event there.
Puebla has a current population of 3,344,000 people, making it the fourth-largest city in Mexico after Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara. It is also the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country and a main hub for eastern-central Mexico.
The China Poblana was a young Indian woman named Mirra who, according to colonial-era sources, was kidnapped by Portuguese pirates, baptized Catarina de San Juan, and eventually sold in Acapulco to a Puebla merchant. She died on the 5th of January 1688 at the age of 82, and her remains lie in the sacristy of the Templo de la Compañía in Puebla.