Shivalik-Gangetic Plain
819 tigers, 2022
+173 since 2018 · 6 reserves on the map
Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar
Map 3
India's tiger landscapes
Tigers do not stop at state borders, so the national census groups them into five landscapes. Central India now holds the most, and every landscape has grown since 2006. Select a landscape to highlight it.
States are shaded by the landscape the census assigns them to. Dots are tiger reserves.
Central India and Eastern Ghats
1,439 tigers, 2022
+406 since 2018 · 30 reserves on the map
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Jharkhand
Western Ghats
1,087 tigers, 2022
+106 since 2018 · 12 reserves on the map
Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa
North-East Hills and Brahmaputra Plains
236 tigers, 2022
+17 since 2018 · 9 reserves on the map
Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland and northern West Bengal
Sundarbans
101 tigers, 2022
+13 since 2018 · 1 reserve on the map
Indian Sundarbans, West Bengal
Landscape totals are the official 2022 estimates (bars show 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022; the Sundarbans were first reported in 2010). The census assigns whole states to a landscape, so state shading is a simplification: real landscapes cross state lines, and northern West Bengal is counted with the North-East. Source: Press Information Bureau, Annexure I. The published North-East subtotal (236) is a little below the sum of its state rows (240); we show the published figure.
About these maps. They are simplified illustrations to show where tigers live, not survey maps. The outline shows India's boundary as claimed by the Government of India, including all of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh; for legal or survey purposes use the Survey of India. Reserve dots are approximate points, not reserve boundaries. The exact locations of individual tigers are deliberately never published, because poachers could use them.