Kaziranga National Park

Kaziranga National Park is a protected area in the Brahmaputra Valley floodplain of Assam, India, spread across the Golaghat and Nagaon districts, with Golaghat the nearest city. It began as a reserve forest on 1 June 1905 and was declared a national park on 11 February 1974.

UNESCO lists the park as a World Heritage Site under natural criteria (ix) and (x), and gives its area as 42,996 hectares. Wikipedia records the listing as 1985. UNESCO says the park holds the world’s largest population of Indian one-horned rhinoceroses, with more than 2,000 animals, and Wikipedia gives a count of 2,401. It also supports tigers, Asian elephants, wild water buffalo, the Ganges River dolphin and many migratory birds.

The park is in the news after a road accident on 13 November 2026, when a minibus and a container truck collided head on on National Highway 715 at Rangajan in Golaghat district, near the park. Golaghat Additional District Commissioner Jintu Bora said the death toll had reached 26 by 14 November.

Sources: Wikipedia, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ANI via Awaz The Voice.