List of national archives


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.
CountryArchiveLocationYearCollection sizeNotable artifactsImageWebsite
National Archives of AfghanistanKabul1890
General Directorate of ArchivesTirana1949
Centre Nationale des Archives
National Archives of AndorraAndorra la Vella1975
Arquivo Histórico NacionalLuanda
General Archive of the NationBuenos Aires1821
  • 800,000 photographs
  • 100,000 volumes
  • 3,000 films
    • National Archives of ArmeniaYerevan1923
    National Archives of ArubaOranjestad
    National Archives of AustraliaCanberra1961
  • 40,000,000 items
  • Griffin drawings
  • Mildenhall photographic collection
    • National Film and Sound ArchiveCanberra1984
  • 2,800,000 items
    • Austrian State ArchivesVienna1749
    National Archive DepartmentBaku2002
    National Archives of the BahamasNassau1971
    National Archives of BangladeshDhaka1973
  • 225,000 volumes
    • Barbados National ArchivesBridgetown
    National Archives of BelarusMinsk1927
    National Archives of BelgiumBrussels
    National Archives of BelizeBelmopan
    National Archives of BeninPorto-Novo1914
    National Library & Archives of BhutanThimphu1967
    National Archives of BoliviaSucre1836
  • 114,000 volumes
    • Archive of Bosnia and HerzegovinaSarajevo
    National Archives of BotswanaGaborone1967
  • 20,000 items
    • Arquivo NacionalRio de Janeiro1838
  • 1,740,000 photographs
  • 124,000 films
  • 44,000 maps
  • 20,000 illustrations
  • 4,000 videotapes
    • Sofia
    National Archives of Burkina FasoOuagadougou
    National Archives of CambodiaPhnom Penh
    National Archives of CameroonYaoundé1966
  • 64,000 volumes
    • Library and Archives CanadaOttawa2004
  • 30,000,000 photographs
  • 20,000,000 books
  • 3,000,000 architectural drawings, plans and maps
  • 425,000 works of art
  • 550,000 music items
  • 90,000 films
    • Arquivo Histórico NacionalPraia1988
    National Archives of ChileSantiago1927
    National Archives Administration of ChinaBeijing1954
  • 80,000,000 items
    • General National ArchiveBogotá1989
    Archives Nationales du CongoBrazzaville
    Archives Nationales de la République démocratique du CongoKinshasa
    National Archives of the Cook Islands1974
  • 4,000 photographs
    • National Archives of Costa Rica
    Croatian State ArchivesZagreb
    Archivo Nacional de la República de CubaHavana1840
    Cyprus State ArchivesNicosia1972
    National ArchivesPraga

    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
  • National Archives and Library of Ethiopia

    F

  • Jane Cameron National Archives
  • National Archives of the Faroe Islands
  • National Archives of Finland
  • Archives nationales

    G

  • National Archives of Gabon
  • National Archives of Ghana. This role was taken over by the Public Records and Archives Administration Department in 1997.
  • German Federal Archives
  • General Archives of the State
  • 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

    J

  • National Archives of Japan

    K

  • Kenya National Archives

    L

  • Centre des Archives Nationales
  • Center for National Documents and Records
  • National Archives of Libya
  • National Archives of Liechtenstein
  • Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania
  • Archives nationales de Luxembourg

    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
  • National Archives of Mongolia
  • State Archives of Montenegro
  • Bibliothèque Générale et Archives, Morocco
  • Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique
  • National Archives of Myanmar

    N

  • National Archives of Namibia
  • Nationaal Archief, Netherlands
  • Archives New Zealand
  • General National Archive
  • Archives nationales du Niger
  • National Archives of Nigeria
  • Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
  • National Archival Services of Norway

    O

  • Ottoman Archives Turkey

    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
  • , Spain
  • Archivo General de Indias, Spain
  • Archivo General de Simancas, Spain
  • Department of National Archives, Sri Lanka
  • Swaziland National Archives
  • 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
  • Tanzania National Archives
  • National Archives of Thailand
  • Thai Film Archive
  • National Archives of Togo
  • National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago
  • National Archives of Tunisia

    U

  • National Archives, United Arab Emirates
  • The National Archives
  • National Archives and Records Administration and the National Archives Building, United States

    V

  • National Archives of Vanuatu
  • Vatican Secret Archives
  • National Archives of Venezuela

    W

  • West Indies Federal Archives Centre

    Z

  • National Archives of Zambia
  • National Archives of Zimbabwe