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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Danish National Archives
Archivo General de la Nación de República Dominicana
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National Archives of Ecuador
Egyptian National Library and Archives
National Archives of Estonia
Eswatini National Archives
National Archives and Library of Ethiopia
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Jane Cameron National Archives (Falkland Islands) National Archives of the Faroe Islands National Archives of Finland Archives nationales (France)
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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 (Greece) National Archives of Georgia Gibraltar Archives National Archives of Guinea
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National Archives of Haiti
Government Records Service and Public Records Office, Hong Kong
National Archives of Hungary
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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)
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National Archives of Japan
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Kenya National Archives
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Centre des Archives Nationales (Lebanon) Center for National Documents and Records (Liberia) National Archives of Libya National Archives of Liechtenstein Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania Archives nationales de Luxembourg (ANLux)
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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
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National Archives of Namibia
Nationaal Archief, Netherlands
Archives New Zealand
General National Archive (Nicaragua) Archives nationales du Niger National Archives of Nigeria Public Record Office of Northern Ireland National Archival Services of Norway
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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
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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
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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
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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, Swiss Film Archive and Swiss National Sound Archives National Archives of Sudan National Archives of South Sudan National Archives of Suriname