India's Other National Parks Ranked by Size, From a Bird Wetland to a Tiger Forest

The smallest park on the path covers about 1.43 square kilometers of wetland in Gurgaon district, Haryana. It was protected as a bird sanctuary in 1972, became a national park in July 1991 and was named a Ramsar wetland on May 25 2021, and it hosts migratory Siberian cranes and greater flamingos.

Guindy covers about 2.7 square kilometers inside the city of Chennai, which makes it one of the smallest national parks in India and one of the few within a major city. It surrounds Raj Bhavan, the Governor's residence, and shelters blackbuck and spotted deer.

At about 24 square kilometers, Vansda lies along the Ambika river in the Dangs woodlands of Navsari district, Gujarat, and was established in 1979. A 2020 sighting there confirmed dholes in Gujarat for the first time in 50 years.

About 34 square kilometers of grassland on the Gulf of Khambhat coast in Bhavnagar district, set up in 1976 on land once used for blackbuck hunting. Besides the blackbuck it protects the Indian wolf and the lesser florican, with conservation programs for all three.

Kalesar covers about 53 square kilometers in Yamunanagar district, Haryana, and was declared a national park on December 8 2003. More than half of it is sal forest, a 2016 survey counted 42 Indian leopards, and it borders Rajaji National Park in Uttarakhand and Simbalbara National Park in Himachal Pradesh.

The national park core of 107 square kilometers, declared in 1978, sits inside a Western Ghats sanctuary of about 240 square kilometers in Goa. It holds Dudhsagar Falls, at 310 meters the tallest waterfall in Goa, and the twelfth century Tambdi Surla temple.

Roughly 200 square kilometers in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, in existence since July 1982. Its sal, teak and bamboo forest hides limestone caves such as Kotumsar, Kailash and Dandak, and the Tirathgarh waterfalls are among its sights.

Bannerghatta spreads over roughly 260 square kilometers about 22 kilometers south of Bangalore, and became a national park in 1974. It forms part of an elephant corridor linking the BR Hills and Sathyamangalam forests, and a zoological garden component was added in 2002.

The roughly 350 square kilometer core of a larger Assam biosphere reserve of about 765 square kilometers, made a national park in 1999. Bounded by the Brahmaputra and Lohit rivers, it contains the largest salix swamp forest in northeastern India and shelters Gangetic river dolphins.

Madhav covers about 354 square kilometers in Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh. It began in 1956 as Shivpuri National Park, was once a royal hunting ground, and holds the Sakhya Sagar reservoir, a Ramsar wetland since 2022, beside George Castle, built in 1911 for King George V.

Mouling spans about 483 square kilometers across the Upper Siang, West Siang and East Siang districts of Arunachal Pradesh. Established on December 30 1986, it was the state's second national park after Namdapha and forms part of the Dihang-Dibang Biosphere Reserve.

The largest stop covers about 1,258 square kilometers in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh, and is named for the Indravati River, which forms its northern boundary with Maharashtra. It became a national park in 1981 and a tiger reserve in 1983, and it shelters one of the last wild populations of the endangered wild water buffalo.