Coimbatore District is a district in the
Kongu Nadu region of the
state of
Tamil Nadu.
Coimbatore is the administrative headquarters of the district. It is one of the most industrialized districts and a major textile, industrial, commercial, educational, information technology, healthcare and manufacturing hub of Tamil Nadu. The region is bounded by
Tiruppur district in the east,
Nilgiris district in the north,
Erode district in the north-east,
Palghat district and
Idukki district of neighboring state of
Kerala in the west and south respectively. As of 2011, Coimbatore district had a population of 3,458,045 with a sex-ratio of 1,000 and literacy rate of 84%.