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Chitwan National Park

Nawalpur District, Nepal · built 1973

Chitwan National Park
Chitwan National Park. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Chitwan National Park is the first national park of Nepal and was established in 1973 as Royal Chitwan National Park. It was granted the status of a World Heritage Site in 1984. It covers an area of 952.63 km2 (367.81 sq mi) in the Terai region of south-central Nepal. It ranges in elevation from about 100 m (330 ft) in the river valleys to 815 m (2, 674 ft) in the Sivalik Hills.

NatureReserve data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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