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Aokigahara (青木ヶ原)
Aokigahara, also called Jukai or the Sea of Trees, is a dense forest on the northwestern foot of Mount Fuji, Japan, that grew on lava from an 864 eruption.
Bandhavgarh National Park
Bandhavgarh National Park (Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve) is a 1968-established tiger reserve in Umaria, Madhya Pradesh, India, famed for its high Bengal tiger density, the 2,000-year-old Bandhavgarh Fort, and the 1951 capture of white tiger Mohan.
Bannerghatta National Park
Bannerghatta National Park, a 1974-notified protected area about 22 km south of Bengaluru, Karnataka, also called Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP), with zoo, safari, butterfly park, elephant sanctuary, and a contested eco-sensitive zone.
Chitwan National Park
Chitwan National Park (चितवन राष्ट्रिय निकुञ्ज), established 1973 in Nepal's Terai lowlands, is the country's first national park and a 1984 UNESCO World Heritage Site protecting one-horned rhinos and Bengal tigers across 932 km² plus a 750 km² buffer zone.
Dudhwa National Park
Dudhwa National Park (दुधवा राष्ट्रीय उद्यान), a 490 km² Terai park in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, on the Nepal border; core of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve with tigers, swamp deer, and reintroduced one-horned rhinos.
Gir National Park
Gir National Park in Gujarat, India, core of the Gir sanctuary complex (about 1,883 sq km), protects the world's only wild Asiatic lions, which numbered 891 in the 2025 census, up from 674 in 2020.
Hundred Islands National Park
Hundred Islands National Park (HINP): 123 coral islands in Alaminos City, Pangasinan, Philippines, along Lingayen Gulf. Established by Quezon's Proclamation No. 667 in 1940; about 1,860 hectares; managed by Alaminos City since 2005.
Impression Fenglingdu Scenic Area
Impression Fenglingdu Scenic Area (印象风陵渡景区), a free-entry national AAA attraction in Fenglingdu town, Ruicheng County, Yuncheng, Shanxi, on the Yellow River Golden Triangle; eight sections, 80 °C strontium hot springs, Xihoudu site, hero locomotive.
Jigokudani Monkey Park (地獄谷野猿公苑)
Jigokudani Monkey Park (地獄谷野猿公苑) is an unfenced 1964 park in Yamanouchi, Nagano, where a wild troop of about 160 Japanese macaques, drawn by regulated feeding, famously bathes in a natural hot spring.
Jim Corbett National Park
Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, India: established 1936 as Hailey National Park, India's first national park and Project Tiger's 1973 launch site; core of Corbett Tiger Reserve with India's highest tiger abundance (260 in 2022).
Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟)
Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟), a UNESCO World Heritage valley of travertine lakes and waterfalls in Sichuan, China, inscribed 1992, a 1997 biosphere reserve, hit by the 2017 Ms 7.0 earthquake, capped at 41,000 visitors daily.
Kanha Tiger Reserve
Kanha Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh (also Kanha National Park): 2,074 sq km Satpura reserve famous for saving the hard-ground barasingha (66 to ~750 animals) and for 105+ tigers, first nine Project Tiger reserves.
Keoladeo National Park (केवलादेव राष्ट्रीय उद्यान)
Keoladeo National Park (केवलादेव राष्ट्रीय उद्यान), formerly Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, is a 2,873 ha man-made wetland in Rajasthan, India; a Ramsar site (1981), national park (1982), and UNESCO World Heritage Site (1985) hosting about 375 bird species on the Central Asian flyway.
Khao Yai National Park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาใหญ่)
Khao Yai National Park (อุทยานแห่งชาติเขาใหญ่) is Thailand's first national park, established in 1962, covering 2,166 km² across four provinces about 200 km from Bangkok and inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.
Kinabalu Park
Kinabalu Park (Taman Kinabalu) is a national park in Sabah, Malaysia, on northern Borneo, dominated by Mount Kinabalu, the island's highest peak, and established in 1964.
Lushan National Park
Lushan National Park (庐山国家公园), a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China, inscribed 1996 as China's first World Cultural Landscape; 30,200 ha, Hanyang Peak 1,474 m, Donglin Temple, White Deer Cave Academy, and Global Geopark.
Manas National Park
Manas National Park, Assam, India: Himalayan-foothill protected area, UNESCO World Heritage Site (1985), Tiger Reserve, and Biosphere Reserve; lost rhinos to 1990s unrest, recovered them via Indian Rhino Vision 2020.
Mudumalai National Park (முதுமலை தேசியப் பூங்கா)
Mudumalai National Park (முதுமலை தேசியப் பூங்கா), a 103.23 km² park in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris, forms the core of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (688.59 km², declared 2007) at the Kerala-Karnataka-Tamil Nadu tri-junction, linked to Bandipur, Wayanad and Mukurthi.
Nagarhole National Park (ನಾಗರಹೊಳೆ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಉದ್ಯಾನವನ)
Nagarhole National Park (Rajiv Gandhi National Park, ನಾಗರಹೊಳೆ) is a 643 km² tiger reserve in Karnataka's Western Ghats, part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, adjoining Bandipur and Wayanad, with high tiger and elephant densities and heavy human–wildlife conflict.
National parks of the Middle East and Central Asia
National parks of the Middle East and Central Asia are state-designated protected areas. Iran manages a tiered reserve hierarchy, covering 16,676,734 hectares, while Saudi Arabia has 31.26 percent coverage.
Periyar National Park
Periyar National Park (350 km2) is the core of the 777 km2 Periyar Tiger Reserve at Thekkady, Kerala, in the Western Ghats. Known for tigers, elephants, Periyar Lake, and community ecotourism with former poachers.
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park and Hin Nam No National Park
Transboundary UNESCO World Heritage Site (2025) joining Phong Nha-Ke Bang (Vietnam) and Hin Nam No (Laos) national parks; 217,447 ha of 400-million-year-old karst with over 220 km of caves, Son Doong, and Annamite endemic species.
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park (PPSRNP), also called the Puerto Princesa Underground River, is a 22,202 ha UNESCO World Heritage park in Palawan, Philippines, with an 8.2 km tidal underground river flowing directly into the sea, inscribed in 1999 and named a New 7 Wonders of Nature site in 2011.
Ranthambore National Park (रणथंभौर राष्ट्रीय उद्यान)
Ranthambore National Park (रणथंभौर राष्ट्रीय उद्यान), also spelled Ranthambhore, is a Rajasthan tiger reserve and former Jaipur royal game reserve, made a Project Tiger reserve in 1973 and a national park in 1980, with 57 tigers recorded in 2022.
Sanjay Gandhi National Park
Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), formerly Borivali National Park, is a roughly 104 sq km urban protected forest in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, known for the 109 Kanheri Buddhist caves, high leopard density, and intense surrounding urban pressure.
Sariska Tiger Reserve
Sariska Tiger Reserve, Alwar district, Rajasthan (Aravalli hills), a 1,213 sq km Project Tiger reserve created in 1978. Its tigers were poached to local extinction by 2004, then reintroduced from Ranthambhore from June 2008, reaching 56 tigers by 2026.
Silent Valley National Park
Silent Valley National Park, Kerala, India: a 237.52 sq km tropical evergreen rainforest in the Nilgiri Hills, saved from a hydroelectric dam by the Save Silent Valley movement, national park since 1984, core of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
Simlipal National Park
Simlipal (Similipal) National Park, Mayurbhanj, Odisha, India: a 2,750 sq km tiger reserve, UNESCO biosphere reserve, and since April 2025 India's 107th National Park, known for wild melanistic black tigers and the Barehipani and Joranda waterfalls.
Sundarbans National Park (সুন্দরবন জাতীয় উদ্যান)
Sundarbans National Park (সুন্দরবন জাতীয় উদ্যান), West Bengal, India: UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987 in the world's largest mangrove forest, core of the Sundarban Tiger Reserve, home of swimming Bengal tigers.
Taroko National Park (太鲁阁国家公园)
Taroko National Park (太魯閣國家公園), Taiwan national park established November 28, 1986; 92,000 hectares across Hualien, Taichung, Nantou; marble Taroko Gorge carved by the Liwu River; largely closed and phased-reopening after the April 3, 2024 earthquake.