Kaziranga National Park
Assam, India
Kaziranga lies on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra in the state of Assam, in the north-east of India, and it is the…
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Asia
Oldest national parks in Asia
The oldest protected area in Asia in this catalogue is Kaziranga, in Assam, set aside as a reserve forest in 1905 after Mary Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, failed to see a single rhinoceros there; it now holds two thirds of the world's one-horned rhinos. Zaamin, in Uzbekistan, dates from 1926. Japan created its first national parks in 1934, Nikko, Daisetsuzan and Akan among them, with Fuji-Hakone following in 1936.
| # | Park | Country | Founded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaziranga National Park | India | 1905 |
| 2 | Zaamin National Park | Uzbekistan | 1926 |
| 3 | Akan-Mashu National Park | Japan | 1934 |
| 4 | Nikko National Park | Japan | 1934 |
| 5 | Daisetsuzan National Park | Japan | 1934 |
| 6 | Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park | Japan | 1936 |
| 7 | Jim Corbett National Park | India | 1936 |
| 8 | Yala National Park | Sri Lanka | 1937 |
| 9 | Taman Negara National Park | Malaysia | 1938 |
| 10 | Wilpattu National Park | Sri Lanka | 1938 |
| 11 | Gal Oya National Park | Sri Lanka | 1954 |
| 12 | Kanha National Park | India | 1955 |
| 13 | Bako National Park | Malaysia | 1957 |
| 14 | Onuma Quasi-National Park | Japan | 1958 |
| 15 | Cuc Phuong National Park | Vietnam | 1960 |
| 16 | Khao Yai National Park | Thailand | 1962 |
| 17 | Wolong National Nature Reserve | China | 1963 |
| 18 | Shiretoko National Park | Japan | 1964 |
| 19 | Kinabalu Park | Malaysia | 1964 |
| 20 | Gir National Park | India | 1965 |
Zaamin National Park
Uzbekistan
Zaamin is a mountain park in the Jizzakh region of eastern Uzbekistan, on the northern slope of the Turkestan range…
4 tickets & tours
Akan-Mashu National Park
Japan
Akan-Mashu is a park of volcanoes, caldera lakes, forests and hot springs in the east of Hokkaido, the northern island…
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Nikko National Park
Japan
Nikko is the mountain park two hours north of Tokyo whose shrines are a World Heritage Site and whose lakes and…
24 tickets & tours
Daisetsuzan National Park
Japan
Daisetsuzan is the mountainous heart of Hokkaido, Japan's northern island, a park the size of a small prefecture,…
3 tickets & tours
Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park
Japan
Fuji-Hakone-Izu is the most visited national park in Japan, and it is not one place but four, scattered across four…
2 tickets & tours
Jim Corbett National Park
Uttarakhand, India
Corbett is India's oldest tiger reserve, five to six hours from Delhi in the Himalayan foothills of Uttarakhand,…
16 tickets & tours
Yala National Park
Sri Lanka
Yala is Sri Lanka's most visited national park and the place with the best odds of seeing a wild leopard anywhere…
314 tickets & tours
Taman Negara National Park
Malaysia
Taman Negara, the name simply means national park in Malay, is the great rainforest of the Malay Peninsula, and nearly…
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Wilpattu National Park
Sri Lanka
Wilpattu is Sri Lanka's largest and oldest national park and the quieter counterpart to Yala, on the north-west…
54 tickets & tours
Gal Oya National Park
Sri Lanka
Gal Oya lies in the little-visited south-east of Sri Lanka, inland from the east coast, about three hours from Ella and…
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Kanha National Park
Madhya Pradesh, India
Kanha, in the Maikal hills of Madhya Pradesh, in the very centre of India, is by common consent the most beautiful and…
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The same year, 1936, saw Hailey National Park established in the Himalayan foothills, the first national park in mainland Asia; it was later renamed for the hunter turned conservationist Jim Corbett. Malaysia's Taman Negara and Sri Lanka's Yala and Wilpattu followed within two years.