National Parks of India

Every place on this map

1. Jim Corbett National ParkUttarakhandIndia's first national park, set up in 1936 as Hailey National Park and renamed for Jim Corbett in 1956.
2. Kaziranga National ParkAssamHolds about two-thirds of the world's greater one-horned rhinoceroses on the Brahmaputra floodplains.
3. Manas National ParkAssamA UNESCO World Heritage Site (1985) in the Himalayan foothills on the Bhutan border, with a first-batch Project Tiger reserve (1973).
4. Sundarbans National ParkWest BengalThe world's largest mangrove forest, in the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta, and the stronghold of the swimming Royal Bengal tiger.
5. Gir National ParkGujaratThe only place in the world where Asiatic lions live in the wild.
6. Periyar National ParkKeralaAn elephant and tiger reserve in the Cardamom Hills of the Western Ghats, centred on the Periyar lake formed by the Mullaperiyar dam.
7. Bandipur National ParkKarnatakaA first-batch Project Tiger reserve (1973) in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
8. Nagarhole National ParkKarnatakaAlso called Rajiv Gandhi National Park; a tiger reserve (1999) on the Kabini river in the Cauvery basin.
9. Kanha National ParkMadhya PradeshMadhya Pradesh's largest national park and the only home of the hard-ground barasingha, the state animal, saved from near extinction.
10. Bandhavgarh National ParkMadhya PradeshFamed for very high tiger density around the ancient Bandhavgarh fort in the Vindhya hills.
11. Pench National ParkMadhya PradeshA tiger reserve split between Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, with the Pench river running north to south through it.
12. Tadoba-Andhari National ParkMaharashtraMaharashtra's oldest (1955) and largest national park, centred on Tadoba lake and drained by the Andhari river.
13. Ranthambore National ParkRajasthanTiger reserve around the 10th-century Ranthambore Fort, bounded by the Banas in the north and the Chambal in the south.
14. Sariska National ParkRajasthanThe Aravalli-hills reserve that lost every tiger to poaching by 2004, then hosted India's first tiger reintroduction from 2008.
15. Keoladeo National ParkRajasthanA man-made wetland from the old Bharatpur royal duck reserve, fed by the Ajan bund.
16. Desert National ParkRajasthanOne of India's largest national parks, spread across the Thar desert of the Jaisalmer and Barmer districts.
17. Hemis National ParkLadakhIndia's largest national park and the only one north of the Great Himalaya, named after the Hemis monastery.
18. Dachigam National ParkJammu and KashmirThe last viable home of the hangul (Kashmir stag); its name means 'ten villages'.
19. Pin Valley National ParkHimachal PradeshA cold-desert park in the Spiti valley, ranging from 3,500 m to over 6,000 m.
20. Great Himalayan National ParkHimachal PradeshA UNESCO World Heritage Site (2014) in the Kullu district, spanning the Tirthan, Sainj and Parvati valleys.
21. Valley of Flowers National ParkUttarakhandFamed for meadows of endemic alpine flowers in the Pushpawati valley, listed with Nanda Devi as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
22. Nanda Devi National ParkUttarakhandWraps around Nanda Devi (7,816 m), the highest peak wholly inside India.
23. Rajaji National ParkUttarakhandFormed in 1983 by merging the Rajaji, Motichur and Chilla sanctuaries; named after C. Rajagopalachari.
24. Dudhwa National ParkUttar PradeshTerai grassland park in Lakhimpur Kheri on the Nepal border, a stronghold of the barasingha.
25. Simlipal National ParkOdishaA first-batch tiger reserve (1973) and UNESCO biosphere reserve in the Mayurbhanj hills, famed for melanistic black tigers.
26. Bhitarkanika National ParkOdishaIndia's second-largest mangrove forest, in the Brahmani-Baitarani delta, with India's largest saltwater-crocodile population.
27. Namdapha National ParkArunachal PradeshThe only park in the world with all four big cats - tiger, leopard, clouded leopard and snow leopard.
28. Silent Valley National ParkKeralaAn undisturbed evergreen rainforest saved by the Save Silent Valley movement, which stopped a hydel dam in the 1970s.
29. Eravikulam National ParkKeralaKerala's first national park, holding the largest surviving population of the Nilgiri tahr.
30. Mudumalai National ParkTamil NaduOne of India's first wildlife sanctuaries (1940); a tiger reserve since 2007 at the tri-junction of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala.
31. Bannerghatta National ParkKarnatakaA national park just south of Bengaluru with a zoo, safari zones and India's first butterfly park (2006).
32. Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger ReserveAndhra Pradesh and TelanganaIndia's largest tiger reserve, spread over the Nallamala hills of the Eastern Ghats in both states.
33. Anamalai National ParkTamil NaduEarlier the Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park, now the Anamalai Tiger Reserve in the Anamalai hills.
34. Dibru-Saikhowa National ParkAssamA river-island park in the Brahmaputra floodplains, bounded by the Brahmaputra, Lohit and Dibru rivers.
35. Papikonda National ParkAndhra PradeshA Godavari-basin park on the Papikonda hills of the Eastern Ghats, where the river cuts a gorge through the forest.
36. Keibul Lamjao National ParkManipurThe world's only floating national park, formed of floating vegetation mats (phumdis) on Loktak lake.
37. Kuno National ParkMadhya PradeshThe site of Project Cheetah (2022), which brought cheetahs back to India from Namibia and South Africa.
38. Gangotri National ParkUttarakhandHolds Gaumukh, the snout of the Gangotri glacier and the source of the Bhagirathi.
39. Nokrek National ParkMeghalayaThe core of the Nokrek Biosphere Reserve, added to UNESCO's MAB network in 2009.
40. Indravati National ParkChhattisgarhIn Chhattisgarh's Bastar region, named after the Indravati river that forms its northern border with Maharashtra.
41. Clouded Leopard National ParkTripuraA small park (est. 2007) inside the Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary near Agartala.
42. Sanjay Gandhi National ParkMaharashtraOne of the largest national parks lying inside a city, within Mumbai's limits.
43. Mahatma Gandhi Marine National ParkAndaman & NicobarA marine national park at Wandoor in South Andaman, covering 15 islands and open sea (est. 1983).
44. Betla National ParkJharkhandThe core of the Palamau Tiger Reserve, one of the nine first-batch Project Tiger reserves (1973).
45. Buxa Tiger ReserveWest BengalCreated in 1983 as India's 15th tiger reserve, in the Sinchula hills of Alipurduar on the Bhutan border.