National archives are central archives maintained by countries. This article contains a list of national archives.
Among its more important tasks are to ensure the accessibility and preservation of the information produced by governments, both analogically and digitally, for the government itself, researchers and generations to come.
Some national archives collections are large, holding millions of items spanning several centuries, while others created recently have modest collections. In the last decade, digitization projects have made possible to browse records and contents online, although no archive have their entire collections published on the web.
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| Country | Archive | Location | Year | Collection size | Notable artifacts | Image | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Afghanistan | National Archives of Afghanistan | Kabul | 1890 | ) | |||
 Albania | General Directorate of Archives | Tirana | 1949 |
| [1] | ||
 Algeria | Centre Nationale des Archives | [2] | |||||
 Andorra | National Archives of Andorra | Andorra la Vella | 1975 | ) | [3] | ||
 Angola | Arquivo Histórico Nacional | Luanda | |||||
 Argentina | General Archive of the Nation | Buenos Aires | 1821 |
| .JPG')) | [4] | |
 Armenia | National Archives of Armenia | Yerevan | 1923 | ){kind=small} | [5] | ||
 Aruba | National Archives of Aruba | Oranjestad | |||||
.svg.png){kind=small} Australia | National Archives of Australia | Canberra | 1961 |
| ) | [6] | |
| National Film and Sound Archive | Canberra | 1984 |
| ) | [7] | ||
 Austria | Austrian State Archives | Vienna | 1749 | ) | [8] | ||
 Azerbaijan | National Archive Department | Baku | 2002 | [9] |
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| Country | Archive | Location | Year | Collection size | Notable artifacts | Image | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bahamas | National Archives of the Bahamas | Nassau | 1971 | [10] | |||
 Bangladesh | National Archives of Bangladesh | Dhaka | 1973 |
| [11] | ||
 Barbados | Barbados National Archives | Bridgetown | |||||
 Belarus | National Archives of Belarus | Minsk | 1927 | ) | [12] | ||
.svg.png){kind=small} Belgium | National Archives of Belgium | Brussels | ) | [13] | |||
 Belize | National Archives of Belize | Belmopan | |||||
 Benin | National Archives of Benin | Porto-Novo | 1914 | [14] | |||
 Bhutan | National Library & Archives of Bhutan | Thimphu | 1967 | ) | [15] | ||
 Bolivia | National Archives of Bolivia | Sucre | 1836 |
| ) | [16] | |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina | Archive of Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo | [17] | ||||
 Botswana | National Archives of Botswana | Gaborone | 1967 |
| ) | ||
 Brazil | Arquivo Nacional | Rio de Janeiro | 1838 |
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 Bulgaria | Bulgarian Archives State Agency | Sofia | ) | [19] | |||
 Burkina Faso | National Archives of Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou | [20] |
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| Country | Archive | Location | Year | Collection size | Notable artifacts | Image | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cambodia | National Archives of Cambodia | Phnom Penh | ) | [21] | |||
 Cameroon | National Archives of Cameroon | Yaoundé | 1966 |
| |||
.svg.png){kind=small} Canada | Library and Archives Canada | Ottawa | 2004 |
| ) | [22] | |
 Cape Verde | Arquivo Histórico Nacional | Praia | 1988 | ) | [23] | ||
 Chile | National Archives of Chile | Santiago | 1927 | ) | [24] | ||
 China | National Archives Administration of China | Beijing | 1954 |
| [25] | ||
 Colombia | General National Archive | Bogotá | 1989 | ) | [26] | ||
 Republic of the Congo | Archives Nationales du Congo | Brazzaville | |||||
 Democratic Republic of the Congo | Archives Nationales de la République démocratique du Congo | Kinshasa | |||||
 Cook Islands | National Archives of the Cook Islands | 1974 |
| [27] | |||
 Costa Rica | National Archives of Costa Rica | ||||||
 Croatia | Croatian State Archives | Zagreb | ) | [28] | |||
 Cuba | Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba | Havana | 1840 | [29] | |||
 Cyprus | Cyprus State Archives | Nicosia | 1972 | [30] | |||
 Czech Republic | National Archives | Praga | ) | [31] |
D
- Danish National Archives
- Archivo General de la Nación de República Dominicana
E
- National Archives of Ecuador
- Egyptian National Library and Archives
- National Archives of Estonia
- Eswatini National Archives
- National Archives and Library of Ethiopia
F
- Jane Cameron National Archives (Falkland Islands)
- National Archives of the Faroe Islands
- National Archives of Finland
- Archives nationales (France)
G
- National Archives of Gabon
- National Archives of Ghana. This role was taken over by the Public Records and Archives Administration Department in 1997.[1]
- German Federal Archives
- General Archives of the State (Greece)
- National Archives of Georgia
- Gibraltar Archives
- National Archives of Guinea
H
- National Archives of Haiti
- Government Records Service and Public Records Office, Hong Kong
- National Archives of Hungary
I
- National Archive of Iceland
- National Archives of India
- National Archives of Indonesia
- Iraq National Library and Archive
- National Archives of Ireland
- Israel State Archive
- Central Archives of the State (Italy)
J
- National Archives of Japan
K
- Kenya National Archives
L
- Centre des Archives Nationales (Lebanon)
- Center for National Documents and Records (Liberia)
- National Archives of Libya
- National Archives of Liechtenstein [2]
- Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania
- Archives nationales de Luxembourg (ANLux) [3]
M
- National Archives of Madagascar
- National Archives of Malaysia
- National Archives of Malawi
- National Archives of Mali
- National Archives of Malta
- National Archives of the Marshall Islands
- National Archives of Mauritania
- National Archives of Mauritius
- General National Archive (Mexico)
- National Archives of Mongolia
- State Archives of Montenegro
- Bibliothèque Générale et Archives, Morocco
- Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique (Mozambique)
- National Archives of Myanmar
N
- National Archives of Namibia
- Nationaal Archief, Netherlands
- Archives New Zealand
- General National Archive (Nicaragua)
- Archives nationales du Niger[4]
- National Archives of Nigeria
- Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
- National Archival Services of Norway
O
P
- Palestine National Archives, maintained by Palestinian Ministry of Culture.
- National Archives of Pakistan
- National Archives of Panama
- Archivo Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay
- Archivo General de la Nación del Perú
- National Archives of the Philippines
- Central Archives of Historical Records, Poland
- Archives of Modern Records, Poland
- Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Portugal
- Archivo General de Puerto Rico
R
- National Archives of Romania
- Russian State Archive of Contemporary History
- Russian State Archive of Literature and Art
- Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History
- State Archive of the Russian Federation
- National Archives of Rwanda
S
- Saharawi National Archive
- State Archives of San Marino
- National Archives of Scotland
- Archives nationales du Sénégal
- National Archives of Serbia
- National Archives of Seychelles
- National Archives of Singapore
- Slovak National Archives
- Archives of the Republic of Slovenia
- National Archives of South Africa
- National Archives of Korea, South Korea
- Archivo Histórico Nacional, Spain
- Archivo General de Indias, Spain
- Archivo General de Simancas, Spain
- Department of National Archives, Sri Lanka
- National Archives of Sweden
- Federal Archives of Switzerland, Swiss Literary Archives amd Swiss National Sound Archives
- National Archives of Sudan
- National Archives of South Sudan
- National Archives of Suriname
T
- National Archives Administration, Republic of China (commonly known as "Taiwan")
- Tanzania National Archives
- National Archives of Thailand
- Thai Film Archive
- National Archives of Togo
- National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago
- National Archives of Tunisia
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- National Archives (UAE), United Arab Emirates
- The National Archives (United Kingdom)
- National Archives and Records Administration and the National Archives Building, United States
V
- National Archives of Vanuatu [5]
- Vatican Secret Archives
- National Archives of Venezuela
W
- West Indies Federal Archives Centre
Z
- National Archives of Zambia
- National Archives of Zimbabwe
See also
- List of archives
- List of archivists
- Lists of film archives
- List of national libraries
- National library
- List of oldest institutions in continuous operation
References
- ^ Abdulai, Iddirisu (2000). "The Ghana Public Records and Archives Administration Department-Tamale: A Guide for Users". History in Africa. 27: 449–453. doi:10.2307/3172126. JSTOR 3172126.
- ^ "Landesverwaltung Liechtenstein". www.llv.li. Archived from the original on 2008-04-03.
- ^ "Archives nationales de Luxembourg".
- ^ Marcel Lajeunesse, ed. (2008). Les Bibliothèques nationales de la francophonie (PDF) (in French) (3rd ed.). Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. OCLC 401164333.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
External links
- "Databases and registers - National Archives of Finland". arkisto.fi. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
- penrose-press.com - Directory of Libraries by subject and region, 2016 (in English)