Size and Area

Previously the park covered an area of 10,330 sq km but in early 2008 the park was extended virtually overnight to its much larger current size of 20,226 sq km including an additional 4,500 sq km of grassland and swamp.

Ruaha isnow the largest National Park in Tanzania (the second largest park in Africa) and forms the core of a much larger ecosystem of 150,000 sq km, named the western corridor.