 It is a rural community located midway between Alor Setar and Sungai Petani.Guar Chempedak comes from two words, in which Guar means 'hilly land' and Chempedak or cempedak is a name of a fruit that is believed to be widely available here in any season.It was where the tragic 1989 Taufiqiah Al-Khairiah madrasa fire occurred.