Tiger

 Here’s a clear world map of the native range of wild Tiger (historical vs current):

🗺️ Native tiger range (historical vs today)

🌏 What the map shows

Historical (native) range

• Tigers were native across a विशाल stretch of Asia, including:
• Eastern Turkey and the Caspian Sea
• Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Iran, etc.)
• The entire Indian subcontinent
• Southeast Asia
• Eastern China, Korea, and the Russian Far East
• In total, they once occupied most of Asia  

Current (native but surviving) range

Today, tigers survive in fragmented pockets, mainly:

• India (largest population)
• Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan
• Mainland Southeast Asia (e.g., Thailand, Malaysia)
• Indonesia (only on Sumatra now)
• Russia (Amur/Siberian tiger)

They now occupy only ~6–7% of their original range  

🧭 Key insight

• Tigers are exclusively native to Asia—no natural populations ever existed in Europe, Africa, or the Americas.
• Their range collapse is recent (last ~100–150 years) and driven by:
• Habitat loss
• Hunting/poaching
• Human expansion

If you want, I can break this down further by subspecies maps (Bengal, Siberian, Sumatran, etc.) or show how their range changed over time step-by-step.