//
Geographical region in India
Photo: Marcus Sherman, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Kongu Nadu in western Tamil Nadu consists of 10 districts, namely Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Dindigul, Erode, Karur, Krishnagiri, Namakkal, Nilgiris, Salem and Tiruppur.
Choose an airport to see hotels, stations, taxi ranks and car rental desks around it.
Coimbatore · International · CJB
Loading places around the airport…
Aragalur is a historic village 70 km from Salem, Tamil Nadu.
Coimbatore (Tamil: கோயம்புத்தூர் Kōyambuttur), also known as Kovai (கோவை Kōvai), is an industrial city of 2 million people (2020) in Tamil Nadu, often likened to being the Manchester or Detroit of Southern India. It's famous for the manufacture of motor-pump sets and varied engineering goods.
Dharmapuri is a city in Tamil Nadu.
surrounded by mountains, it has a fort built in 1605
Gobichettipalayam (also known as Gobi) is a town and municipality in Erode District, Tamil Nadu. Gobichettipalayam is an important town in the northwestern part of the state and is the headquarters of the taluk of the same name.
Hogenakkal is a city in Tamil Nadu.
Hosur (Tamil: ஒசூர் Ochūr, Kannada: ಹೊಸೂರು Hosūru) is an industrial town in northern Tamil Nadu, on the bank of the River Ponnaiyar. It is considered the manufacturing twin of Bengaluru due to its presence of major manufacturing industries, compared to Bengaluru's presence of major IT industries.
Karur is a town of some 10,76,588 (2011 census) people in Central Tamil Nadu.
Kodaikanal is a hill station in the Palani Hill Range. It offers beautiful surrounding nature and considerably lower temperatures than other places in Tamil Nadu.
Krishnagiri is a town in Northern Tamil Nadu.
Kulithalai is a town on the south bank of River Cauvery in India. It houses the famous Shiva temple 'Kadambar kovil' (a Thevara sthalam).
Mettupalayam is a municipality of Coimbatore district. It is situated at the foothills of Nilgiris on the bank river Bhavani on Coimbatore-Guddalor State Highways.
Namakkal is a small historic city in Tamil Nadu in Southern India.
Ooty, short for Ootacamund and officially Udhagamandalam (Tamil: உதகமண்டலம் Udagamaṇḍalam), is a popular hill resort in the state of Tamil Nadu in Southern India. The name Udhagamandalam is derived from the Toda word "othakal-mund" which means "house in mountains".
Pollachi (பொள்ளாச்சி Pollāchchi) is a town and a municipality close to the foothills of Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, 40 km south of Coimbatore. It is picture perfect for the nomenclature — Mini Kodambakkam.
Salem is a city in Tamil Nadu. Nicknamed the Steel City, it is best known in modern times for its steel plant and manufacturing industry.
Tiruppur (திருப்பூர்) is a city in Tamil Nadu, south India. It is known as the knitwear capital of India because the city accounts for 90% of India's cotton knitwear exports from the country.
Udumalaippettai (also called Udamalpet or UDT) is in India and is a nice resting place away from the humdrum of the high route to Palani.
Valparai is a hill station in the Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu. It is 104 km from Coimbatore and 64 km from Pollachi, 110 km from Ernakulam (Cochin) via Athirapalli, Vazhachal, Malakkarapa.
Yercaud is a hill station at an altitude of 1515 metres altitude in the state of Tamil Nadu in Southern India.
Anamalai Tiger Reserve is a national park near Pollachi in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, at an altitude of 800 feet from the sea level on the Anamalai mountain range. It is a part of the protected Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary.
Articles and travel topics about Kongu Nadu and India.
Travel tipsExplore the rainy seasons in Asia month by month. Compare Southwest and Northeast monsoons, typhoon belts, dry island escapes, and travel dates.
8 min read
Travel tipsSpot and avoid common tourist scams in India, including fake train ticket offices, closed hotel lies, rigged auto-rickshaws, and temple donation tricks.
8 min read
Travel tipsFull 2026 list of visa-free and visa-on-arrival countries for Indian passport holders. Check entry requirements, stay limits, and transit visa rules.
6 min read
InspirationDiscover the best places to visit in India, from Delhi monuments and the Taj Mahal in Agra to Jaipur forts, sacred Varanasi ghats, and Kerala backwaters.
6 min read
Every section of the guide. Open one to read it in full.