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| Serengeti National Park | |
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| Swahili: Hifadhi ya Serengeti | |
 Landscape in Serengeti National Park | |
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| Location | Tanzania |
| Coordinates | 2°20′S 34°34′E / 2.333°S 34.567°E |
| Area | 14,763 km2 (5,700 sq mi) |
| Established | 1951 |
| Visitors | 350,000 per year |
| Governing body | Tanzania National Parks Authority |
| Type | Natural |
| Criteria | vii, x |
| Designated | 1981 (5th session) |
| Reference no. | 156 |
| Region | Africa |
The Serengeti National Park is a large national park in northern Tanzania that stretches over 14,763 km2 (5,700 sq mi).[1] It is located in eastern Mara Region and northeastern Simiyu Region and contains over 1,500,000 ha (3,700,000 acres) of virgin savanna. The park was established in 1940.
The Serengeti is well known for the largest annual animal migration in the world of over 1.5 million blue wildebeest and 250,000 zebra along with smaller herds of Thomson's gazelle and eland.[2] The national park is also home to the largest lion population in Africa. It is under threat from deforestation, population growth and ranching.
- ^ "Black rhino dies aged 43 in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park". Xinhua News. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ^ Sinclair, Anthony Ronald Entrican (1995). Serengeti II: Dynamics, Management, and Conservation of an Ecosystem. University of Chicago Press. p. 15.