Top 5 largest National Parks in Tanzania.

Tanzania has 22 national parks filled with diverse resources and unforgettable beauty.

Below are the top 5 largest national parks based on their area.

1. Nyerere National park

This Tanzania’s Largest National Park!
The park covers an area of 30,893 sq. km, hosting one of the world’s largest concentrations of wildlife. The collection of wildlife, both in diversity and abundance, is unique! Visitors to this vast sanctuary will be able to see the exceptional volume of wildlife, both rare and common species.

The park host the famous ‘’Big Five’’ and some rare species of antelopes like Roan Antelope, Brindled Gnu, Lichtenstein hartebeest, roan, and sable antelopes, Kudu etc.

1. Ruaha national park

It is the second largest National Park in Tanzania, covering an area of 20,226 sq. km in south-central Tanzania. During the dry season, when game viewing is at its best, animals are drawn to the Great Ruaha River and other water sources. The name Ruaha was derived from the hehe word called ”Luhava” meaning the great river.

1. Serengeti national park

This is Africa’s most famous National Park, with an area of 14,763 km².
Maasai people called this park ‘Siringet’, meaning endless plains. The Serengeti speaks for itself and with a good reason, not only the migration of over 1 million wildebeest through its grasslands and woodlands but also unique landscapes and other spectacular wildlife.
The Serengeti is home to the world’s largest populations of Wildebeest, Zebra, Cape Eland, Lion, Cheetah, Hyena and Gazelles. The scenic beauty of the sky with cool nights and warm days makes your visit to this remaining home for the great migration of large mammals incredible.

1. Burigi chato national park

Recently gazetted as a National Park, Burigi Chato combines three former Game Reserves into 1 unit that is now 4,707 sq. km making it the 4th largest National Park in Tanzania.
Stretching from Lake Victoria in the East to the Rwandan boundary in the West, BurigiChato is an enormous piece of the wild country encompassing freshwater lakes, long hills, rocky crags along escarpments, deeply set valleys lined with forest, open plains, swamps, rivers, flood plains and hundreds of square kilometres of medium and tall grass wooded savanna – mostly combretum and Terminalia known as Miombo.

1. Katavi national park
   Katavi National Park is found in the western part of Tanzania; it was formerly a game reserve; the park was established in 1974. It originally covered 1,823 sq. km until 1997, when it was extended to 4,471 sq. km. The park is 40km south of Mpanda town, Tanzania’s fifth largest national park.