In the northwest of the governmental district Upper Franconia lies the administrative district Coburg. In the north he borders on Thuringia, in the east to the administrative district Kronach, in the south to the administrative districts Lichtenfels and Bamberg and in the west to the administrative district Haßberge. Cities in the administrative district Coburg are a Bad Rodach, Neustadt near Coburg, Rödental and Seßlach, municipalities in the administrative district Coburg Ahorn, Dörfles-Esbach, Ebersdorf near Coburg, Großheirath, Grub am Forst, Itzgrund, Lauterlat, Meeder, Niederfüllbach, Sonnefeld, Untersiemau, Weidhausen near Coburg and Weitramsdorf. With approx. 91,700 residents and a surface of 592 kms ² the administrative district Coburg has a medium population density of 155 residents per km ².

A, level-wavy high-level surface predominantly used as an arable land with heights stamps the northwest of the administrative district between 300 and 500 meters about sea level. Is already counted to the foothills of the Thuringian forest the northern part of the administrative district Coburg. He is stamped by the already clear middle mountain pull of the beginning Thuringian forest. Here are still found extensive deciduous forests.

In the administrative district Coburg the industrialization already started very early what the city of Coburg, as well as the administrative district Coburg to one in strengthened to industrialized regions in Bavaria made. Above all many small firms and medium-size businesses establish the back degree of the industry. Production centers of gravity are especially the upholstered furniture-processing and wooden-processing industry, toy industry, wickerwork and ceramic products (porcelain and industry ceramics). The structure change after the collapse of the iron curtain has also registered the administrative district Coburg, nowadays many jobs of the industrial range change to the service industry or information sector.

The administrative district Coburg is bound on account of its position at the moment of the German division only badly to the international major roads and railway system. However, this will strongly change during the next years. With the building of the Thuringian forest highway A73 from Suhl to Lichtenfels and the intercity express high-speed-railway from Erfurt to Nuremberg the administrative district orders Coburg in the foreseeable future of an excellent feed binding to the international goods currents.