Which national park is situated at the highest altitude in the country?

ACorbett National Park

BHemis National Park ✓ Correct

CSilent Valley National Park

DDachigam National Park

Correct answer: (B) Hemis National Park

Explanation

Hemis National Park in Ladakh sits at the highest altitude among Indian national parks.

Corbett lies in the Himalayan foothills of Uttarakhand, far lower than Hemis.

Silent Valley is a low-elevation rainforest in the Western Ghats of Kerala.

Dachigam in Kashmir is high but does not reach Hemis's Trans-Himalayan elevations.

Hemis is famed as a stronghold of the snow leopard in cold high-altitude desert.

It is among the largest national parks in India by area.

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