Kanha National Park is a national park and a Tiger Reserve in the Balaghat districts of Madhya Pradesh. It stretches over an area of 940 km² in the two districts Mandla and Balaghat. It is the largest National Park in Central India with significant population of Royal Bengal Tiger, leopards, the sloth bear, Barasingha and Indian wild dog. The lush sal and bamboo forests and ravines of Kanha provided inspiration to Rudyard Kipling for his famous novel “Jungle Book”.