Tiruppur district
The district Tiruppur (Tamil: திருப்பூர் மாவட்டம், also: Tirupur ) is a district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Administrative center is the eponymous town of Tiruppur.
Geography
The district Tirupour located inland in the west of Tamil Nadu. Neighboring districts are in the West Coimbatore, Erode in the north, in the east of Karur, Dindigul in the southeast and Idukki in the south. The latter already belongs to the neighboring federal state of Kerala. The district has an area of 5,192 square kilometers.
The area of the district Tiruppur belongs to the historic region of Kongu Nadu. The terrain is mostly flat plateau as is, in the extreme south to the border with Kerala, the district Tiruppur has a share in the mountains of the Western Ghats. Here is a part of the Indira Gandhi National Park. Through the district Tiruppur, the rivers flow Noyyal and Amravathi, both tributaries of the Kaveri.
The district Tiruppur is divided into six taluks Avinashi, Tiruppur, Palladam, Kangeyam, Dharapuram, Madathukulam, and Udumalaipettai.
History
The early history of the district Tiruppur essentially corresponds to the district of Coimbatore. 1804 the area came from Tiruppur to British India and was incorporated as part of the district of Coimbatore in the province of Madras. After Indian independence, the area came in 1956 to the newly formed State of Madras (now Tamil Nadu ). 2009, the district Tiruppur from the eastern parts of the district of Coimbatore and the south of the district of Erode is formed.
Population
According to the 2011 census, the district Tiruppur has 2,471,222 inhabitants. Due to the economic attractiveness of the industrial city of Tiruppur district is experiencing strong population growth: Compared to the last census in 2001 the population had grown by 29.7 percent. The growth rate is according to the located in the catchment area of the metropolis of Chennai Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur the third highest of all districts of Tamil Nadu and almost twice as high as the average of the state ( 15.5 percent). The population density is 476 inhabitants per square kilometer somewhat below the average of Tamil Nadu ( 555 inhabitants per square kilometer). The degree of urbanization is 61.5 percent, however, higher than the mean of the state ( 48.5 percent). The literacy rate is 79.1 percent slightly below the average of Tamil Nadu ( 80.3 per cent).