Bandhavgarh National Park (Devanagari

Devanagari

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: बांधवगढ राष्ट्रीय उद्दान) is one of the popular national parks in India

India

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 located in the Umaria

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Umaria is a town in umaria district of the Shahdol Division of Madhya Pradesh state of central India.-History:umaria is located to the North East of Madhya Pradesh. Mathematically the coordinates of the District extend from 23o38' to 24o20' North and 80o28' to 82o12' East. It has geographical...

 district of Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

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. Bandhavgarh was declared a national park

National park

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 in 1968 with an area of 105 km². The buffer is spread over the forest divisions of Umaria and Katni and totals 437 km². The park derives its name from the most prominent hillock

Hillock

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 of the area, which is said to be given by Hindu

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 Lord Rama

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 to his brother Lakshmana

Lakshmana

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 to keep a watch on Lanka

Lanka

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 (Ceylon).