The Serengeti National Park, located in the northwest of Tanzania, about 130 kilometers west-northwest of Arusha, extends into a narrow strip reaching 8 kilometers into Lake Victoria to the west and stretches up to the Kenyan border in the north. It became a protected area after 1940; in 1929, a 228,600-hectare area in central Serengeti was designated as a hunting protection area; it was established as a national park in 1951 and expanded in 1959. As part of the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme's Serengeti-Ngorongoro Biosphere Reserve (together with the adjacent Maswa Game Reserve), it was internationally recognized and inscribed on the World Heritage List in the same year.

Heritage Name: Serengeti National Park

Inscription Year: 1981

Selection Criteria: Natural Heritage (vii)(x)

Geographic Location: S2 19 59.988 E34 34 0.012

Heritage Area: 1,476,300 ha

Heritage No.: 156

Serengeti National Park is a large national park in Tanzania, located in the Serengeti region, and is famous for the large-scale migration of over 1.5 million wildebeest and about 250,000 zebras that occur every year.

Serengeti National Park, located in the northwest of Tanzania, 130 kilometers west-northwest of Arusha, includes a narrow strip that extends 8 kilometers into Lake Victoria to the west and stretches up to the Kenyan border in the north. It is the most famous national park in Tanzania and a vast ecosystem with over 3 million large mammals, with vegetation mainly consisting of open grasslands. The park includes grassland plains and savannas covering an area of 14,750 square kilometers, as well as riverine forests and woodlands. The climate within the park is tropical savanna, with altitudes ranging from 920 meters to 1850 meters. Serengeti National Park is located in the northern part of Tanzania, bordering Kenya to the north and connecting to Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve. To the southeast is the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, to the southwest is the Nyarikongo Hunting Prohibited Area (Maswa Hunting Prohibited Area), to the west are the Akorongo and Grumeti Hunting Prohibited Areas, and to the northeast is the Loliondo Hunting Controlled Area. These areas together are known as the Serengeti ecosystem.

Serengeti National Park is usually divided into three topographical regions:

Serengeti Plains: The Serengeti Plains are vast, with the almost treeless grasslands in the south being the iconic landscape of the national park. Wildebeest mainly inhabit the plains from December to May of the following year, and other animals such as zebras, gazelles, impalas, topi, eland, kudus, and African buffaloes also inhabit this area during the rainy season. The crystalline rocks formed from volcanic ash are the main rock formations on the plains, and some hilly areas are composed of granite.

Western Corridor: Located in a remote part of the national park, it is a large grassland similar to a swamp covered with black clay. The Grumeti River in the corridor is a major habitat for Nile crocodiles,colobus, and martial eagles, and migratory animals also pass through this area from May to July.

North Serengeti: Mainly composed of open woodlands (mainly composed of Commiphora plants) and hills, starting from Seronera in the south to the Mara River at the Kenyan border in the north. In addition to migrating wildebeest and zebras (usually occurring from July to August and November), there are also elephants, giraffes, and small antelopes inhabiting this dense tropical savanna.

In 1981, according to the natural heritage selection criteria (vii)(x), Serengeti National Park was approved by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee as a natural heritage site to be included in the "World Heritage List".

Criteria (vii): The Serengeti Plains is the largest unaltered animal migration site in the world, with over 1 million antelopes, gazelles, and hundreds of thousands of other ungulates making a 1000-kilometer circular trek annually, crossing the two adjacent countries of Kenya and Tanzania. This spectacular phenomenon occurs in a unique scenic environment of the "endless plains": 25,000 square kilometers of treeless, spectacular flat short grasslands, dotted with rock outcrops (kopjes), rivers, and woodlands. The park also hosts the largest and most diverse predator-prey interactions in the world, providing a particularly impressive aesthetic experience.