In which Indian state is the Corbett Tiger Reserve located?

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Correct — C, Uttarakhand. Corbett Tiger Reserve (Jim Corbett National Park) lies in Uttarakhand's Nainital and Pauri Garhwal districts, along the Ramganga river. Originally established in 1936 as Hailey National Park — India's first national park — it was renamed after hunter-turned-conservationist Jim Corbett in 1957 and became India's first Tiger Reserve when Project Tiger was launched in 1973.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Wrong state — Rajasthan's well-known tiger reserves are Ranthambore and Sariska, not Corbett.  (b) A tempting trap since MP has India's largest number of tiger reserves (Kanha, Bandhavgarh, Pench, Satpura, Panna), but Corbett itself is not one of them.  (d) Wrong state — West Bengal's tiger reserve is the Sundarbans, not Corbett.

Concept: Corbett Tiger Reserve sits in the Shivalik foothills of Uttarakhand and was the first of the nine original reserves notified under Project Tiger in 1973 — independent India's flagship tiger-conservation programme. Before that, the same forest tract had already made history in 1936 as Hailey National Park, India's very first national park.

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