# African national parks

Many of these parks are on the UNESCO World Heritage List. They can be visited for safaris, to see the African flora and fauna.

## Botswana

* -18.6524.41 Chobe National Park
* -25.76666720.3833332 Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
* -20.60524.7827783 Makgadikgadi Pans National Park
* -19.16666723.1666674 Moremi National Park - in the heart of the Okavango Delta

## Central African Republic

Check the security situation before planning any visits.
* 8.521.55 Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park

## Democratic Republic of the Congo

Check the security situation before planning any visits.
* 429.256 Garamba National Park
* -0.529.57 Virunga National Park

## Eswatini

* -26.2531.888 Hlane Royal National Park - known for its rhinos

## Ethiopia

* 7.538.59 Abijatta Shalla Lakes National Park
* 94010 Awash National Park
* 6.6666739.666711 Bale Mountains National Park
* 5.6666736.166712 Mago National Park
* 6.03333137.583313 Nechisar National Park
* 635.83333314 Omo National Park
* 13.18333338.06666715 Simien National Park — stunning mountain scenery and important wildlife populations in Ethiopia
* 1140.833316 Yangudi Rassa National Park

## Kenya

* -0.3836.69916717 Aberdare National Park
* -2.6537.2518 Amboseli National Park
* -0.36666736.08333319 Lake Nakuru National Park
* -0.09361138.20805620 Meru National Park
* 1.13333334.58333321 Mount Elgon National Park
* -1.37333336.85888922 Nairobi National Park
* 0.6123137.5324723 Samburu National Park
* 3.96055636.342524 Sibiloi National Park
* -2.77861138.77166725 Tsavo East National Park
* -3.31666738.13333326 Tsavo West National Park

## Lesotho

* -29.929.11666727 Sehlabathebe National Park — remote mountain reserve great for hiking with rare wildlife, impressive waterfalls, and ancient rock paintings and stone shelters
* -28.92428.45828 Ts'ehlanyane National Park — the largest national park in Lesotho: rugged wilderness at a high altitude

## Malawi

* -1333.16666729 Kasungu National Park
* -14.03333334.88333330 Lake Malawi National Park — famous for its incredibly high level of diversity in fish species
* -16.25777834.75138931 Lengwe National Park
* -14.83333335.33333332 Liwonde National Park
* -10.66666733.83333333 Nyika National Park — large highland national park in Malawi

## Mozambique

* -18.76634.534 Gorongosa National Park
* -23.86666732.13333335 Limpopo National Park

## Namibia

* -28.053917.034736 Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park - including the Fish River Canyon Park
* -17.91666722.537 Bwabwata National Park — Composed by ex "Caprivi Game Park" and ex "Mahango Game Reserve".
* -18.78527816.26388938 Etosha National Park — Abundant wildlife in the "big white place"
* -27.71869417.57858339 Fish River Canyon Park — one of the world's largest canyons.
* -18.83333320.83333340 Khaudum National Park — Maybe the most remote of all Namibian national parks, known for its tourist-terrorising elephants
* -1823.541 Mudumu National Park
* -24.54638915.32972242 Namib-Naukluft National Park — contains the famous Sossusvlei valley and the world's highest dunes
* -18.423.6543 Nkasa Lupala National Park
* -19.1912.7244 Skeleton Coast National Park
* -20.41666717.21666745 Waterberg Plateau Park — Another good place to watch wildlife.

## Niger

Check the security situation before planning any visits.
* 122.546 W National Park

## Nigeria

* 11.51347 Chad Basin National Park
* 5.4166678.58333348 Cross River National Park
* 7.3511.5249 Gashaka Gumti National Park
* 10.36844.55471950 Kainji National Park
* 10.756.551 Kamuku National Park
* 6.4166675.46666752 Okomu National Park
* 8.6666673.98333353 Old Oyo National Park
* 9.310.554 Yankari National Park

## Réunion

* -21.1555.555 Réunion National Park – Réunion's only national park protecting the island's volcano, mountainous landscapes, and a popular spot for hiking

## Rwanda

* -1.63333330.78333356 Akagera National Park
* -1.467529.492557 Volcanoes National Park — in Rwanda is full of impressive rainforest and volcanic scenery of the Virunga Mountains, and is perhaps the best place in the world to see rare mountain gorillas. Also crosses into Uganda where it is known as Mgahinga Gorilla National Park

## South Africa

South Africa is home to a vast array of national parks – see South African national parks for coverage of South Africa.

## Tanzania

* -3.2536.83333358 Arusha National Park
* -4.66666729.63333359 Gombe National Park
* -3.06666737.35916760 Kilimanjaro National Park
* -3.535.83333361 Lake Manyara National Park
* -6.26666729.93333362 Mahale Mountains
* -7.237.13333363 Mikumi National Park
* -4.29944438.38944464 Mkomazi Game Reserve
* -3.2135.4665 Ngorongoro Conservancy
* -7.53111134.63694466 Ruaha National Park
* -2.331.83333367 Rubondo Island National Park
* -2.33277834.56666768 Serengeti National Park — huge national park in Tanzania, perhaps the archetypal African game park; becomes the Maasai Mara National Reserve over the border in Kenya
* -937.469 Selous Game Reserve
* -435.97861170 Tarangire National Park

## Uganda

* Kabelaga National Park
* 3.9333.80694471 Kidepo Valley National Park
* 2.366731.816772 Murchison Falls National Park
* -0.13722230.04111173 Queen Elizabeth National Park
* 0.36666729.9574 Rwenzori National Park — home of the almost mythical, otherworldly scenery of the Mountains of the Moon in Uganda

## Zambia

* -15.66666727.2575 Blue Lagoon National Park — very accessible, with lechwe, zebra and buffalo
* -15.2825.776 Kafue National Park — largest national park of the country
* -12.2530.83333377 Lavushi Manda National Park
* -14.66666722.578 Liuwa plains National Park
* -15.66666727.2579 Lochinvar National Park — excellent for bird watching
* -15.7529.33333380 Lower Zambezi National Park
* -12.532.33333381 Luambe National Park — used to be the president's private game reserve, now pristine wilderness without mass tourism
* -17.86666725.83333382 Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park
* -8.74393930.38268983 Nsumbu National Park — used to be very popular in the 1970s but has declined in the last decades
* -123284 North Luangwa National Park — one of Africa's great safari destinations
* -10.66666733.63333385 Nyika National Park
* -1331.586 South Luangwa National Park
* -17.93333325.83333387 Victoria Falls — one of the world's largest waterfalls

## Zimbabwe

* -21.66666731.66666788 Gonarezhou National Park
* -18.73526.95589 Hwange National Park (formerly Wankie Game Reserve) — the largest natural reserve in Zimbabwe, at 14,600 km²