Kaziranga National Park is a national park in Assam, northeastern India, along the floodplain of the Brahmaputra River, first given protection as a reserve forest in 1905 and later established as a national park in 1974. The park protects the world's largest population of the greater one-horned rhinoceros, along with significant populations of tiger, elephant and wild water buffalo, across tall elephant grass, marshland and dense forest shaped by the Brahmaputra's annual floods. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985 in recognition of its exceptional wildlife populations.
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Designation Category Area (sq km) Governing BodyGovernment of Assam and Government of India 1 IUCN Category Classification
Governance TypeGovernance by Government 1 International DesignationUNESCO World Heritage Site 1 Connections
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Kaziranga National Park lies in the Indian state of Assam.
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Kaziranga National Park is located on the edge of the Brahmaputra River.
Source Kaziranga National Park (Wikipedia)
Kaziranga National Park lies in the Indian state of Assam.
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Kaziranga National Park is a national park and World Heritage Site
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1090
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Government of Assam , Government of India
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II
Governing body field (existing citation)
Government of Assam and Government of India
entity-description, realm terrestrial
Kaziranga National Park is a national park in Assam, northeastern India, along the floodplain of the Brahmaputra River, first given protection as a reserve forest in 1905 and later established as a national park in 1974.
entity-description, international-designation unesco-world-heritage-site
It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985 in recognition of its exceptional wildlife populations.
Associated With: India, Lead section
a national park and World Heritage Site in the Golaghat, Sonitpur, Biswanath and Nagaon districts of the Indian state of Assam.
Associated With: Assam, Lead section
a national park and World Heritage Site in the Golaghat, Sonitpur, Biswanath and Nagaon districts of the Indian state of Assam.
Associated With: Brahmaputra River, Lead section
Located on the edge of the Brahmaputra River
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