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Coimbatore district is one of the 38 districts in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. Coimbatore is the administrative headquarters of the district. [3] It is one of the most industrialized districts and a major textile, industrial, commercial, educational, information technology, healthcare and manufacturing hub of Tamil Nadu. [4]
Kottaimedu - Literally meaning "Fort mound", is a locality in Coimbatore. This is the location of the former Vijayanagar fort. The fort was destroyed and razed down in the battle Tipu's Armies led by Qamar ud-din defeated the British East India Company in the Siege of Coimbatore in the year 1791.
Coimbatore is called the "Manchester of South India" due to its extensive textile industry, fed by the surrounding cotton fields. [76] [77] TIDEL Park Coimbatore in ELCOT SEZ was the first special economic zone (SEZ) set up in 2006. [78] In 2010, Coimbatore ranked 15th in the list of most competitive (by business environment) Indian cities. [79]
Kongunadu is a combination of two Tamil words meaning "Kongu country". Kongu might mean nectar or honey, probably arising from the area's early residents Kongars, who used to wear a garland made of konganam flowers, which were plentiful in this area. [4] Kongu might have also been derived from the Tamil word Kangu, which meant edge or boundary.
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The Coimbatore Metropolitan Area, or Coimbatore Urban Agglomeration, is the sixteenth-most populous metropolitan area in India, the second most populous metropolitan area in the state of Tamil Nadu next only to Chennai. The Coimbatore Metropolitan Area consists of the city of Coimbatore and its suburbs in Coimbatore district.
This includes the state-run PSUs, Statutory corporations and co-operative societies. These commercial institutions are vital to the economic growth of this state. They generated a revenue of ₹425350.7 million for the fiscal year 2008–09. [1] Following is the list of various governmental agencies of the state. [2]
This is a list of Municipal Corporation under State/Union Territory based on the 2011 Census of India. [1] [2] Note: The list includes the city municipal limits, but not urban agglomeration or Municipalities. See § Sortable table for a large sortable table combining all the data.