RAS question
Which National Park in Rajasthan is famous for its tiger population?
Correct answer: (B) Ranthambore National Park.
Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan is famous for its tiger population.
Explanation
Ranthambore National Park is the right answer because Rajasthan Tourism presents Ranthambore as a National Park and Tiger Reserve, calling it one of the world's best known wilderness areas and highlighting it as a place with fine opportunities to sight the tiger in the wild. Ranthambore lies in Sawai Madhopur district and is among India's most famous tiger reserves. It was also one of the first areas brought under Project Tiger in 1973, which is why RAS questions often connect Ranthambore with both wildlife tourism and tiger conservation.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary is not the Ranthambore National Park and Tiger Reserve associated with tiger sightings.
- (C) Desert National Park is a national park option, but Ranthambore, not Desert National Park, is the tiger-focused answer.
- (D) Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary is not the Ranthambore National Park and Tiger Reserve known as a place to sight tigers in the wild.
Concept
This tests Rajasthan's protected areas and their flagship wildlife associations. It recurs in RAS because tiger reserves, Project Tiger and district-location mapping are standard geography-environment linkages.