Dihing Patkai National Park is located in___________.

The correct answer is Assam. The Assam government notified Dihing Patkai as Assam’s seventh National Park on 9 June 2021. On 5 June 2021, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced the designation of Raimona Sanctuary as a National Park. The five older National Parks in the State are Kaziranga, Manas, Nameri, Orang and Dibru-Saikhowa. Kaziranga and Manas are UNESCO World Heritage Sites . They are also tiger reserves along with Nameri and Orang . The 234.26-sq. km Dihing Patkai straddling eastern Assam’s Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts is a major elephant habitat and 310 species of butterflies have been recorded there. The park has 47 species each of reptiles and mammals, including the tiger and clouded leopard. The state now has the third-highest number of National Parks in the country. With ten national parks, Madhya Pradesh tops the list, while Andaman and Nicobar Islands come in second with nine. ​There are 105 national parks in India, covering 44,000 acres of space.