Ayer Keroh

Ayer Keroh (also written as Air Keroh, translated as murky water) is a suburb of Hang Tuah Jaya and Malacca City and the seat of Melaka Tengah District in the Malaysian state of Malacca. Located 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) north of the city centre, it lies adjacent to Bukit Beruang, Bukit Baru, Batu Berendam, Durian Tunggal and Ayer Panas suburbs.

Formerly part of a virgin forest with a quiet village, the neighbourhood was established by the state government in the late 1960s as a satellite town of Malacca City (then Malacca Town) with housing, industrial and recreational areas, to solve the housing issues of Malacca Town and to curb the state's brain drain phenomenon. It is currently the seat of the state government since 2006, being the home of the state secretariat building complex – Seri Negeri complex and also home to the country's oldest artificial lake, originally built as a water reservoir during the British colonial era. In 2010, parts of Ayer Keroh along with parts of few neighbouring suburbs of Batu Berendam, Bemban and Durian Tunggal formed the Hang Tuah Jaya municipality.