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Amboseli National Park
Amboseli National Park is a 392 km² park in Kajiado County, Kenya, at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, gazetted in 1974, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1991, famed for about 1,800 elephants and the world's longest-running wild elephant study.
Etosha National Park
Etosha National Park is a vast savanna and salt-pan national park in northern Namibia, proclaimed in 1907, covering 22,935 km² and famous for elephants, rhinos, and lions.
Hell's Gate National Park
Hell's Gate National Park: Kenyan Rift Valley park near Lake Naivasha, gazetted 1984, 68.25 sq km, KWS-managed; walkable and cyclable, hosts Olkaria geothermal plants and Kenya's only protected Rüppell's vulture colonies.
Hwange National Park
Hwange National Park (formerly Wankie), Zimbabwe's largest park at 14,650 km² in the northwest, holds about 45,000 elephants and depends on over 100 solar-powered boreholes for dry-season water.
iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo National Park
iSimangaliso Wetland Park – Maputo National Park is a transboundary UNESCO World Heritage natural site (397,403 ha) on the South Africa–Mozambique coast, inscribed 1999 and extended 2025 under criteria vii, ix, x.
Kilimanjaro National Park
Kilimanjaro National Park (TANAPA/KINAPA) in northeastern Tanzania protects Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak at 5,895 m with Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira cones; a 1973 national park, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, known for its glaciers and climbing routes.
Kruger National Park
Kruger National Park, South Africa's first national park (proclaimed 31 May 1926 from the 1898 Sabie Game Reserve), covers about 1.9 million hectares in Mpumalanga and Limpopo, holds 147 mammal and 507 bird species, and draws 1-2 million visitors yearly.
Lake Turkana National Parks
Lake Turkana National Parks: serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Kenya (Sibiloi, Central Island, South Island parks; 161,485 ha), inscribed 1997, extended 2001, on the Danger List since 2018 over the Gibe III dam.
Loango National Park
Loango National Park is a 1,550 km² protected area on Gabon's Atlantic coast, created in 2002, where rainforest, lagoons, and ocean beach meet in one landscape.
Nairobi National Park
Nairobi National Park, Kenya's first national park (gazetted 1946, first in East Africa), a 117 km² savannah park 7–10 km from Nairobi's city center, fenced except on the open southern Mbagathi River boundary toward the Kitengela plains, home to black rhinos, lions, and 400+ bird species.
National parks of Egypt
The national parks of Egypt are protected areas designated under Law 102 of 1983, covering about 10% of the country, including Ras Muhammad and Wadi El Hitan.
National parks of Madagascar
The national parks of Madagascar are a network of terrestrial and marine protected areas run by Madagascar National Parks since 1991, tracing back to French reserves created in 1927.
National parks of West Africa and the Sahel
The national parks of West Africa and the Sahel are the region's nationally designated protected areas, part of a network covering about 9.6 percent of West Africa.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), northern Tanzania: 809,440 ha multiple land use World Heritage site (1979) holding the world's largest unbroken caldera, Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli footprints, Maasai pastoralism, ~25,000 large animals, and relocation disputes.
Niokolo-Koba National Park
Niokolo-Koba National Park is a vast savanna park in southeastern Senegal along the Gambia River, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981, home to one of West Africa's last viable lion populations.
Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park
Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park is a national park of primary rainforest in northern Republic of the Congo, created in 1993 and home to thousands of forest elephants and great apes.
Parc national du W (Niger)
Parc national du W (Niger): 220,000-ha national park in Tillabéri, named for the W-shaped Niger River bend, created 1954, World Heritage since 1996, core of the W-Arly-Pendjari Complex.
Parc national Tsimanampesotse
Parc national Tsimanampesotse (Tsimanampetsotsa National Park), a national park and Ramsar site (no. 962, 1998) in Atsimo Andrefana, southwestern Madagascar, protecting alkaline Lake Tsimanampetsotsa, spiny forest, karst caves, and the blind fish Typhleotris madagascariensis.
Rwenzori Mountains National Park
Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda's 99,600 ha World Heritage Site (1994) in the Rwenzori range, holds Mount Margherita (5,109 m), Africa's third highest peak, Albertine Rift endemic flora, and glaciers projected gone by 2030.
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park, a TANAPA-managed park in northern Tanzania established in 1951 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981, protects 1,476,300 ha of savannah and the Great Migration of about two million wildebeest, gazelles, and zebras.
Taï National Park
Taï National Park (Parc national de Taï), southwest Côte d'Ivoire near the Liberian border: a 508,186 ha primary tropical rainforest, national park since 1972, World Heritage site since 1982 and Biosphere Reserve since 1977, home to pygmy hippopotamus, 11 monkey species, and Taï chimpanzees.
Tsavo East National Park
Tsavo East National Park, Kenya's largest national park (about 13,747 km², established April 1948), is a semi-arid savanna in Taita Taveta County known for red-dusted elephants, the Yatta Plateau, the Galana River, and over 500 bird species.
Virunga National Park
Virunga National Park (Parc national des Virunga), Africa's oldest park, founded 1925 as Albert National Park in eastern DRC; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1979, in Danger since 1994, home to a third of the world's mountain gorillas and threatened by the M23 conflict.
W National Park
W National Park is a transboundary park in West Africa, named for the W-shaped bend of the Niger River, where Niger, Burkina Faso, and Benin meet.