Damansara, Selangor

The mukim of Damansara therefore roughly corresponds to the parliamentary constituencies of Shah Alam, Subang and Kota Raja.

It has been speculated that the then British Resident and land registrar, Sir William Maxwell, had accidentally mistook the ‘r’ for an ‘n’ and merged the words ‘Damar Sara’ into ‘Damansara' when he implements Selangor Registration of Titles Regulation on 1891.

The spelling was used by the second Resident of Selangor, William Douglas in his diary entry (July 21, 1867) when he traveled to Kuala Lumpur for the first time;[7] and it can also be found a map sent to Edward Maxwell by Frank Swettenham in March 1883.

Besides that, the Uptown commercial area, which houses the Malaysian branch of several multi-national companies, is located in Damansara Utama.

The state seat of Kota Damansara was transferred to Sungai Buloh constituency in 2016 and is currently held by Shatiri Mansor from PKR.