Tiruppur district
district of Tamil Nadu, India
Tiruppur district is one of the 38 districts of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, formed in 22 February 2009. Dharapuram was the largest taluk by area in the district. The district is well-developed and industrialized. The Tiruppur banian industry, the cotton market, Kangeyam bull and Uthukkuli butter, among other things, provide for a vibrant economy. The city of Tiruppur is the administrative headquarters for the district. As of 2011, the district had a population of 2,479,052 with a sex-ratio of 989 females for every 1,000 males.
History
The district is named after the city of Tiruppur. In Mahabaratha, Arjuna (the third of the Pandavas) returned the cattle captured by the enemies and returned to Dharapuram (நிறை மீட்டல், Nirai Meetal). It eventually become Nirai Thiruputhal and become Tiruppur.
Since the 1990s, the formation of the new Tiruppur district had been urged by the exporters of Tiruppur.
“Tiruppur district” enters the record as district of Tamil Nadu, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tiruppur, district and Tamil can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Tiruppur district” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tiruppur, district and Tamil provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15202. VIAF identifies the subject as 313492448. The Library of Congress control number is n2015202021. Authority coordinates are 11.180, 77.250. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2011.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tiruppur district” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.