Coimbatore District (Madras Presidency)
| Coimbatore District கோயம்புத்தூர் மாவட்டம் | |||||||||
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| District of the Madras Presidency | |||||||||
| 1805–1947 | |||||||||
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Coimbatore district in 1854 | |||||||||
| Capital | Coimbatore | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1901 | 20,357 km2 (7,860 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 2,201,752 | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Establishment of the district | 1805 | ||||||||
• Modern Coimbatore district | 1947 | ||||||||
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| This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Coimbatore". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 652–653. | |||||||||
Coimbatore District was one of the districts of the erstwhile Madras Presidency of British India. It covered the areas of the present-day districts of Coimbatore, Erode and Tirupur and the Kollegal taluk of present-day Karnataka. It covered a total area of 20,400 square kilometres (7,860 sq mi) and was sub-divided into 10 taluks. The administrative headquarters was Coimbatore city. Most of Coimbatore's inhabitants were Tamil-speaking but there were also large numbers of Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada speaking people.