Sultanpur National Park
Haryana, India
Sultanpur is a small bird sanctuary round a shallow lake on the plains of Haryana, fifteen kilometres beyond the office…
2 tickets & tours
Asia
Smallest national parks in Asia
Asia's smallest parks in the catalogue are mostly single sights: the bird lake of Sultanpur near Delhi, the two coral islets of Pigeon Island off Trincomalee, the hill behind the seaside town of Kep, Hangzhou's Xixi wetland, the oasis canyon of Ein Gedi above the Dead Sea. Mu Ko Phi Phi is small only on paper, since the figure covers land and the park is mostly sea.
| # | Park | Country | Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sultanpur National Park | India | 1.4 km² |
| 2 | Pigeon Island National Park | Sri Lanka | 4.7 km² |
| 3 | Xixi National Wetland Park | China | 11.5 km² |
| 4 | Kep National Park | Cambodia | 11.5 km² |
| 5 | Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park | Thailand | 12.2 km² |
| 6 | Ein Gedi Nature Reserve | Israel | 14.3 km² |
| 7 | Lahugala Kitulana National Park | Sri Lanka | 15.5 km² |
| 8 | Kubah National Park | Malaysia | 22.9 km² |
| 9 | Bako National Park | Malaysia | 27 km² |
| 10 | Keoladeo National Park | India | 28.7 km² |
| 11 | Horton Plains National Park | Sri Lanka | 31.6 km² |
| 12 | Calauit Safari Park | Philippines | 34 km² |
| 13 | Kerama Shoto National Park | Japan | 35 km² |
| 14 | Zhangjiajie National Forest Park | China | 48.1 km² |
| 15 | Khao Phanom Bencha National Park | Thailand | 50 km² |
| 16 | Bundala National Park | Sri Lanka | 62 km² |
| 17 | Mount Merapi National Park | Indonesia | 64.1 km² |
| 18 | Bukhansan National Park | South Korea | 76.9 km² |
| 19 | Singalila National Park | India | 78.6 km² |
| 20 | Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park | Philippines | 80.2 km² |
Pigeon Island National Park
Sri Lanka
Pigeon Island is a pair of tiny rocky islands a kilometre off the long beach of Nilaveli, fifteen kilometres north of…
16 tickets & tours
Xixi National Wetland Park
China
Xixi is a wetland of ponds, canals and wooded dykes in the western suburbs of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang…
2 tickets & tours
Kep National Park
Cambodia
Kep National Park is a small forested hill that rises directly behind the sleepy seaside town of Kep, on the south…
2 tickets & tours
Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park
Thailand
The Phi Phi islands are protected as the Hat Noppharat Thara–Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park, and the park fee is collected…
37 tickets & tours
Ein Gedi Nature Reserve
Israel
Ein Gedi is the oasis on the western shore of the Dead Sea, an hour and a half from Jerusalem and two and a half from…
10 tickets & tours
Lahugala Kitulana National Park
Sri Lanka
Lahugala Kitulana is one of the smallest national parks in Sri Lanka, a patch of forest round three old irrigation…
1 ticket or tour
Kubah National Park
Malaysia
Kubah is a small rainforest park on a sandstone ridge about twenty-two kilometres, forty minutes by road, west of…
2 tickets & tours
Bako National Park
Malaysia
Bako is the oldest and smallest of Sarawak's national parks, at the tip of a peninsula thirty-seven kilometres…
4 tickets & tours
Keoladeo National Park
Rajasthan, India
Keoladeo, still widely known as the Bharatpur bird sanctuary, lies on the edge of the town of Bharatpur in eastern…
4 tickets & tours
Horton Plains National Park
Sri Lanka
Horton Plains is the high plateau above Nuwara Eliya in Sri Lanka's hill country, an hour by road from the town…
17 tickets & tours
Calauit Safari Park
Philippines
Calauit is one of the oddest wildlife attractions in Asia, a small island off the north-western tip of Busuanga, in the…
3 tickets & tours
Small parks are easy to visit in a morning and easy to overcrowd. Go at opening time, and on a weekday where you can. The list ranks by recorded area, smallest first.