National Park Statistics API

Use this API to add country-level national park coverage data to conservation dashboards, travel planning tools, education products, and geographic reference workflows. It exposes normalized JSON records with practical filters, source attribution, continent grouping, protected-area totals where available, and summary endpoints for quick comparisons across countries and regions.

Data live national parksprotected areasconservationtravelcountrieswikipedia

Use Cases

  • compare national park coverage by country and continent
  • enrich travel and conservation products with source-attributed country statistics
  • support geography education and research tools with lightweight protected-area metrics

Access

These endpoints are served through RapidAPI. The examples below are documentation examples, not direct browser links, because requests require RapidAPI authentication headers.

Open the RapidAPI listing to subscribe, test requests, and get your API key.

Endpoints

GET/api/nationalparkstats/countries

List country and territory national park statistics or filter by continent, country, park count, oldest year, protected area, percentage, or keyword.

Query parameters: country, continent, min_parks, max_parks, oldest_from, oldest_to, min_area_km2, max_area_km2, min_percent, max_percent, q, limit

/api/nationalparkstats/countries?country=example&q=example
GET/api/nationalparkstats/continents

List continents represented in the dataset.

/api/nationalparkstats/continents
GET/api/nationalparkstats/sources

List source sections used for collection.

/api/nationalparkstats/sources
GET/api/nationalparkstats/summary

Return dataset-level totals and coverage counts.

/api/nationalparkstats/summary

Pricing

  • Basic: $0/day for 10 requests. Evaluation tier for prototypes and quick integration tests.
  • Pro: $9/month for 10000 requests. Small production apps, internal tools, and niche content sites.
  • Business: $29/month for 100000 requests. Higher-volume apps, catalog enrichment, and recurring data workflows.

Data Notes

Source: Wikipedia. Refresh cadence: 30d. Records include source attribution when exposed by the API response.

Primary table: national_park_stats