The location of the park in south Taiwan gives it the added advantage of being in a zone of convergence, between the tropical zone of the Indo-Malay region and the more temperate region of China, Japan and Korea.
劃分五區，各有特色墾丁國家公園位居恆春半島南部，東面太平洋，西臨台灣海峽，南瀕巴士海峽，北至南仁山北側，海陸範圍共計 32,631 公頃，其中 17,731 公頃為陸地面積，餘為海域部份。