It is native to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand and Viet Nam (de Silva et al. 2015). The species is restricted to the hilly areas of the northeast and southeast and the coastal districts when its largest population possibly still thrives in the Sundarbans Mangrove forest in the southwest corner of the country (Feeroz et al. 2011ab, Khan 1982, 2015).

It is native from Ireland in Western Europe to the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Asia, and from Arctic to the southern shores of the Mediterranean (Roos et al. 2015). The species is known to occur in wetland habitats of Greater Sylhet and Greater Mymensingh (Asmat 2009, Feeroz et al. 2011, IUCN Bangladesh 2000, Khan 2015).

Bangladesh: Northwestern part of the country

It occurs in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand and Viet Nam (Duckworth and Timmins 2008). This species is rare and sparsely distributed in mixed evergreen forests of northeast and southeast (Khan 1982, 2015, Feeroz et al. 2011, 2012).

This species occurs from the central and eastern Arabian Peninsula, through Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait to India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. It has been introduced to Japan and Peninsular Malaysia (Choudhury et al. 2013). It is widely distributed all over the country minus the offshore islands and areas of the Sundarbans that regularly gets inundated by tides. Even it lives in most district towns (Khan 1982, 1985, 1987, 2015).

It occurs in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, India (south to Sind on the west and Orissa on the east), Nepal, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Cambodia, China (southern China including Hainan Island), Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Lao PDR and Viet Nam (Wozencraft et al. 2015). Small Indian Mongoose is the most widely distributed carnivore in Bangladesh that thrives well in both natural and man-made habitats barring the interior of the Sundarbans (Khan 1982, 2008, 2015).

Mainland Southeast Asia as far west as Bangladesh and northeastern India, as far north as southern Yunnan Province in China, and south and east to Sumatra and Borneo (Fredriksson et al. 2008). A rare species, historically occurred in mixed evergreen forests of southeast and northeast and occasionally in deciduous forests of north (Blanford 1888) and recent reports from remote areas of the Bandarban, Khagrachari and Rangamati Districts of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Region up to 1970s. Then, the population started dwindling and that trend continued till date (Khan 1982, 2015). Specific locations include Satchari National Park in Habiganj District, Korerhat in Mirsharai Forest Range and Rangamati in Southeastern Bangladesh (Sarker 2006). Also been reported by local people in SanguMatamuhuri, Bilaichhari (in Rangamati) and Remacri under Thanchi Upazila of Bandarban Hill District, Naikhongchari, Dulahazara, Cox's Bazar, Inani, Rangkheong, and Teknaf (Islam et al. 2013). There is only one recent confirmed report of sigthing from the Bandarban District ( S.C. Rahman pers. comm.).

Central Asia, Southern Asia and Africa. It has the widest distribution among all the cat species being present in village groves and in all forest ecosystems, barring man-made mangrove forests in Bangladesh (Khan 2015, Khan 2008, IUCN 2003).

It is native to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Thailand and Viet Nam. Rare and restricted only to several isolated patches in eastern Chittagong Hill Tracts (Kassalong RF, Pablakhali WS, Rheinkheong RF and Sangu WS) in the southeast of Bangladesh. Previously it occurred (until the year 2000) in the forests of Rema-Kalenga WS in the northeast. It used to be common in forests of Geater Sylhet, Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts Districts at least up to 1950s. Then, as the forest denudation followed by hunting of it and its prey and all major wildlife species of these mixed evergreen forest the species has virtually disappeared, barring a few very difficult to observe packs in the remotest parts of the Hill Tracts. A live specimen collected from the Hill Tracts was in display in Dhaka Zoo during 1970s (Ahmed 1982).

It is native to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Viet Nam (Sanderson et al. 2008). There are several confirmed records of the species in the southeast (Chittagong Hill Tracts; Khan 2008, S.C. Rahman pers comm. 2014) and northeast (Greater Sylhet; H.A. Rahman pers. comm. 2014), which are based on freshly hunted specimens, skins and cameratrap images. Khan (1982) collected the first skin of it from Chittagong Hill Tracts.