Dindigul district is an administrative region in the south of
Tamil Nadu,
India. The district was carved out of
Madurai District in 1985. It has an area of 6266.64 km
2 and comprises three Revenue Divisions, nine Taluks, and 14 Panchayat Unions. The district is bound by
Tirupur,
Karur, and
Trichy districts in the north, the
Sivaganga and
Tiruchi districts in the east, the
Madurai district in the south, and the
Theni and
Coimbatore districts and the state of
Kerala in the west. As of 2011, the district had a population of 2,159,775 with a sex-ratio of 998 females for every 1,000 males.