Kedah Coast

The coast of Kedah faces the Strait of Malacca beneath the prominent height of Gunung Jerai. Rivers entering the strait gave access to the Bujang Valley, where ancient Kedah developed as a trading centre. Finds at Pengkalan Bujang include Chinese ceramics and remains dated to the seventh through fourteenth centuries. Its settlements formed part of a network that connected the peninsula with merchants from India, China and other lands across the sea.