A national park is a recreation center being used for preservation purposes, made and ensured by national governments. Frequently it is a save of characteristic, semi-normal, or created land that a sovereign state proclaims or possesses. Albeit singular countries assign their own national stops in an unexpected way, there is a typical thought: the preservation of 'wild nature' for successors and as an image of national pride.

A universal association, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and its World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), has characterized "National Park" as its Category II kind of secured areas.According to the IUCN, 6,555 national parks overall met its standards in 2006. IUCN is as yet examining the boundaries of characterizing a national park.

While this kind of national park had been proposed beforehand, the United States set up the main "open park or pleasuring-ground for the advantage and delight in the individuals", Yellowstone National Park, in 1872.Although Yellowstone was not formally named a "national park" in its building up law, it was constantly named such by and by and is generally held to be the first and most established national park on the planet. In any case, the Tobago Main Ridge Forest Reserve (built up in 1776), and the region encompassing Bogd Khan Uul Mountain (1778) are viewed as the most seasoned lawfully ensured territories, originating before Yellowstone by about a century.