Snowdonia National Park, at 2,142 square kilometres (827 sq mi), is the largest national park in Wales and the third largest in the United Kingdom. The smallest national park in England and Wales, and in the United Kingdom, is The Broads, at 303 square kilometres (117 sq mi).
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The Lake District National Park is the largest National Park in England at 2,292 square kilometres (885 sq mi) and second largest in the United Kingdom after Scotland's Cairngorms National Park.
In 1951, the Peak District was the first area to be designated as a national park. By the end of the decade the Lake District, Snowdonia, Dartmoor, Pembrokeshire Coast, North York Moors, Yorkshire Dales, Exmoor, Northumberland and Brecon Beacons had all been designated as national parks.
Europe: Far and away the largest national park in Europe, Iceland's Vatnajökull National Park covers 14,141 square kilometers (5,460 square miles) of land. The reserve is a wonderland of volcanoes and hot springs, fjords and glaciers that's easy to explore on your own or via guided trips.
Norwich is the only English city with part of a national park in its midst. The stretch of the River Wensum that flows through the city is part of the Broads. The Broads is in East Anglia, one of the driest regions in the country by rainfall.
Chugach State Park is the largest urban park in the world, spanning more than 200,000 hectares. In fact, it is almost ten times larger than Table Mountain National Park, the world's second-largest.
South Downs National ParkOwing to their natural beauty, accessibility, and relative proximity to several populous area of Southern England the South Down National Park was the most popular national park in the Great Britain; receiving 2.31 million visitors in 2019.
Northeast Greenland National Park is the world's largest national park and the ninth largest protected area on Earth. It should come as little surprise, then, that it's also bigger than most countries, covering an impressive 972,000 square km (375,300 square miles).