Parit Buntar is a town situated in the northern part of Perak in the Kerian district of Perak, Malaysia. It is bordering to Nibong Tebal in Penang & Bandar Baharu in Kedah. Kerian district is known as the Rice Bowl of Perak as it has huge areas of paddy fields. The economic activity in Parit Buntar are fishing, commercial and industrial businesses.

Parit Buntar town got its name by deriving from the name of a leader of Tok Buntar. Tok Buntar is a famous people in the past where his followers and him built trenches of Sungai Kerian. The purpose of them building the trenches was to have water flow into the paddy fields. The ditch was originally known as Parit Tok Buntar and now known as Parit Buntar.