Si Rat Malai

Si Rat Malai
สี่รัฐมาลัย
Subdivision of Thailand
1943–1945
Flag of Four Malay States

Flag

  Thai occupation zones (Si Rat Malai)
CapitalAlor Setar
Area 
• 1943
38,382 km2 (14,819 sq mi)
Historical eraWorld War II
• Japan hands over the four states to Thailand
18 October 1943
• Thailand returns annexed territories to the United Kingdom
2 September 1945
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Japanese occupation of Malaya
British Military Administration (Malaya)
Today part ofMalaysia

Si Rat Malai (Thai: สี่รัฐมาลัย, 'Four Malay States') is a former administrative division of Thailand. It included the four northern states of Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan, and Terengganu in British Malaya annexed by the Axis-aligned Thai government after the Japanese invasion of Malaya.[1]

The Thai authorities made Alor Setar the centre for the administration of the territory. Thailand administered the states as Syburi (ไทรบุรี), Palit (ปะลิส), Kalantan (กลันตัน) and Trangkanu (ตรังกานู) provinces[2] from 18 October 1943 until the surrender of the Japanese at the end of the war.