Local businesses in Coimbatore
Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3.5 km of the city centre.
- IT and company offices: 15
- Exowide; RVS Land Surveyors; Sanrad Infotech; Bannari Amman Sugars Limitted; Vriksha Agro Ventures; White Data Systems Pvt Ltd; Signatures Designs and Communications Private Limited; Sun Fire Controls; Impiger Technologies; InfinityHub
- Government offices: 20
- Deputy Director of Horticulture; Regional Transport Office (Central); Municipal Corporation Central Zone Office; Municipal Corporation Ward Office; Agriculture of Engineering Department; Coimbatore Forest Range Office; Coimbatore sp office; E-Service Centre; Sp office; PWD Complex
- Colleges and universities: 26
- Institute of Forest Genetics & Tree Breeding (IFGTB); Niramla College for Women; PG & Research Department of Public Administration; Tamilnadu Forest Academy; Hindusthan School of Management; Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts & Science; Sri Ramakrishna Dental Hospital; Texcity College of Nursing; Vannamalar Institute Of Forest Genetics & Tree Breeding; Avinasilingam Deemed University for Home Sciences
- Workshops and craft businesses: 3
- win star designers; Mitras
- Banks: 68
- Cosmos co-op bank; State Bank of Tranancore; ORIENTAL BANK; ING; Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited; CSB Bank; City Union Bank; Standard Chartered; Corporation Bank; South Indian Bank
- Hospitals: 152
- Dr.Sengaliappan Nursing Home, Coimbatore; KG Hospital Blood Bank; Aravind Eye Hospital (City Centre); Dr. S. G. Rajarathinam Hospital; Eye Trust; Kongunad Hospital, Coimbatore; Nehru Urology Centre; Rasi Hospital; Sheela Clinic; Bragathi Hospital
Coimbatore facts
- District
- Coimbatore district
- Area
- about 246750000 sq km, about 432 m above sea level
- PIN codes
- 641001 (Coimbatore West), 641014 (Coimbatore Tidel Park), 641018 (Coimbatore Racecourse), 641021 (Coimbatore Industrial Estate)
- Places nearby
- Virundeeswarar Temple (Hindu temple, 1 km), Thandu Mariamman Temple (Hindu temple, 1 km), Athar Jamad Mosque (mosque, 1 km), Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Coimbatore) (multi-purpose stadium, 1 km)
- History
- One theory says the name comes from Kovanputtur, the new town of the chieftain Kovan, which became Koyamputtur and then Coimbatore. Another links it to the goddess Koyamma.
- Education
- Coimbatore is a major education hub. Its first school opened in 1831, its first college, Government Arts College, in 1875, and its first engineering college is now the Government College of Technology.
- Local economy
- Coimbatore is a hub for manufacturing, education and healthcare, with over 25,000 small, medium and large industries, mainly in engineering and textiles. It is called the Manchester of South India for a textile industry fed by cotton grown nearby.
Sources: Census of India 2011, Wikipedia, Wikidata, India Post and OpenStreetMap. Last checked 14 October 2026.