Perlis

Perlis lies on the northern edge of the Kedah plain, between the wooded hills and the Strait of Malacca. Long part of the Kedah sultanate, it became a seat of royal government when Sultan Muhyiddin Mansur Shah built Kota Sena in the seventeenth century. Siam's invasion of Kedah in 1821 brought the area under Siamese rule and set in motion struggles over the future of Kedah and its northern districts.

The later city of Kangar lies here.