List of national archives

National archives nyɛla binkura biɛhisi shee ka tiŋgbana yuuni di zuɣu. Lahabali ŋɔ kalila binkura biɛhisi shee di be tiŋgbana balibu ni. Tiŋgbani shɛŋa ni, tiŋgbana bukunima duri n za binkura biɛhisi shee zaani.

A

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Notable artifacts	Website
Afghanistan	National Archives of Afghanistan	Kabul	1890
Albania	General Directorate of Archives	Tirana	1949		Codex Beratinus Codex Beratinus II Elbasan Gospel Manuscript	Archived 2025-09-08 at the Wayback Machine
Algeria	Centre Nationale des Archives	Birkhadem, Algiers
Tɛmplet:Country data American Samoa	American Samoa's Office of Archives and Records Management	Tutuila	1978
Tɛmplet:Country data Andorra	National Archives of Andorra	Andorra la Vella	1975
Angola	Arquivo Histórico Nacional	Luanda
Tɛmplet:Country data Antigua and Barbuda	Antigua and Barbuda National Archives	St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda	1982			Archived 2025-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
Argentina	General Archive of the Nation	Buenos Aires	1821	800,000 photographs 100,000 volumes 3,000 films
Armenia	National Archives of Armenia	Yerevan	1923
Aruba	National Archives of Aruba	Oranjestad	1994			Archived 2025-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
Australia	National Archives of Australia	Canberra	1961	40,000,000 items	Griffin drawings Mildenhall photographic collection
Australia	National Film and Sound Archive	Canberra	1984	2,800,000 items
Austria	Austrian State Archives	Vienna	1749
Azerbaijan	National Archive Department of Azerbaijan	Baku	2002

B

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Website
Tɛmplet:Country data Bahamas	National Archives of the Bahamas	Nassau	1971		Archived 2019-08-14 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Bahrain	National Library of Bahrain at Isa Cultural Centre	Manama	2008		^{[permanent dead link]}
Tɛmplet:Country data Bangladesh	National Archives of Bangladesh	Dhaka	1973	225,000 volumes	Archived 2024-12-14 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Barbados	National Archives of Barbados	Bridgetown
Tɛmplet:Country data Barbados	West Indies Federal Archives Centre	Cave Hill, Saint Michael, Barbados	2004
Tɛmplet:Country data Belarus	National Archives of Belarus	Minsk	1927
Belgium	National Archives of Belgium	Brussels
Tɛmplet:Country data Belize	National Archives of Belize	Belmopan
Benin	National Archives of Benin	Porto-Novo	1914		Archived 2019-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Bermuda	Bermuda National Library	Hamilton, Bermuda	1839
Tɛmplet:Country data Bhutan	National Library & Archives of Bhutan	Thimphu	1967		Archived 2002-06-04 at the Wayback Machine
Bolivia	National Archive and Library of Bolivia	Sucre	1836	114,000 volumes
Tɛmplet:Country data Bosnia and Herzegovina	Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo			Archived 2019-09-04 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Botswana	National Archives of Botswana	Gaborone	1967	20,000 items
Brazil	Arquivo Nacional	Rio de Janeiro	1838	1,740,000 photographs 124,000 films 44,000 maps 20,000 illustrations 4,000 videotapes
Tɛmplet:Country data British Virgin Islands	Archives and Records Management Unit, Governor's Office	Road Town			Archived 2025-06-18 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Brunei	Brunei National Archives	Bandar Seri Begawan	1983
Bulgaria	Bulgarian Archives State Agency	Sofia
Tɛmplet:Country data Burkina Faso	National Archives Centre	Ouagadougou
Tɛmplet:Country data Burundi	DMS Burundi	Bujumbura

C

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Notable artifacts	Image	Website
Tɛmplet:Country data Cambodia	National Archives of Cambodia	Phnom Penh				Lahabali kɔligu:National Archives of Cambodia.jpg
Cameroon	National Archives of Cameroon	Yaoundé	1966	64,000 volumes
Canada	Library and Archives Canada	Ottawa	2004	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
Tɛmplet:Country data Cape Verde	Arquivo Histórico Nacional	Praia	1988
Tɛmplet:Country data Catalonia	National Archive of Catalonia	Sant Cugat del Vallès	1980				Archived 2026-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Cayman Islands	Cayman Islands National Archive	George Town, Cayman Islands	1991
Tɛmplet:Country data Chad	Archives Nationales du Tchad
Chile	National Archives of Chile	Santiago	1927
China	National Archives Administration of China (Tɛmplet:Aka the Central Archives)	Beijing	1954	80,000,000 items
Colombia	General Archive of the Nation	Bogotá	1989
Tɛmplet:Country data Comoros	Comoros National Library	Moroni, Comoros	1979
Republic of the Congo	Archives Nationales du Congo	Brazzaville
Tɛmplet:Country data Cook Islands	National Archives of the Cook Islands		1974	4,000 photographs
Costa Rica	National Archives of Costa Rica	San José	1881				Archived 2014-10-25 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Croatia	Croatian State Archives	Zagreb	1763
Cuba	Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba	Havana	1840
Tɛmplet:Country data Curacao	Nationaal Archief Curacao	Willemstad
Tɛmplet:Country data Cyprus	Cyprus State Archives	Nicosia	1972				Archived 2025-11-14 at the Wayback Machine
Czech Republic	National Archives	Prague			Golden Bull of Sicily Zemské desky

D

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Website
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Institut National des Archives du Congo	Kinshasa	1989	3,000 volumes
Denmark	Danish National Archives	Copenhagen	1889
Tɛmplet:Country data Djibouti	Archives Nationales et Bibliotheque de Djibouti	Balbala
Tɛmplet:Country data Dominica	Dominica Library & Information Service	Roseau	1843		Archived 2025-09-12 at the Wayback Machine
Dominican Republic	Archivo General de la Nación de República Dominicana	Santo Domingo	1935

E

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Website
Tɛmplet:Country data East Timor	National Archives of East Timor	Dili	1999
Tɛmplet:Country data East Timor	Timorese Resistance Archive and Museum	Dili	2005	Archived 2023-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
Ecuador	National Archives of Ecuador	Quito	1884
Egypt	Egyptian National Library and Archives	Cairo	1870
El Salvador	National Library of El Salvador	San Salvador	2023
Tɛmplet:Country data Eritrea	National Archives of Eritrea	Asmara
Tɛmplet:Country data Estonia	National Archives of Estonia	Tartu	1999
Eswatini	Eswatini National Archives	Lobamba	1971
Ethiopia	National Archives and Library of Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	1944

F

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Website
Falkland Islands	Jane Cameron National Archives	Stanley	1841		Archived 2025-08-06 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Faroe Islands	National Archives of the Faroe Islands	Tórshavn	1932		Archived 2024-05-31 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Fiji	National Archives of Fiji	Suva	1954
Tɛmplet:Country data Finland	National Archives of Finland	Helsinki	1816	726,000 maps 334,000 volumes
France	Archives Nationales	Paris and Pierrefitte-sur-Seine	1790

G

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Notable artifacts	Website
Tɛmplet:Country data Gabon	National Archives of Gabon	Libreville	1969
Tɛmplet:Country data Gambia	The Gambia National Records Service	Banjul	1966		Audio recordings and oral histories in various Mande, Niger–Congo and Atlantic–Congo languages - including Mandinka, Fula, Wolof, Jola, Krio, Soninke, Manjak, Serer and Karoninka.^[1] Pre-colonial and rare colonial texts containing documentation, data, social histories, women's histories and plant knowledge
Tɛmplet:Country data Georgia	National Archives of Georgia	Tbilisi	1920	274,625 photographs		Archived 2025-09-10 at the Wayback Machine
Germany	German Federal Archives	Koblenz	1952
Ghana	National Archives of Ghana (until 1997)	Accra
Ghana	Public Records and Archives Administration Department		1997			Archived 2025-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Gibraltar	Gibraltar Archives	Gibraltar	1969
Tɛmplet:Country data Greece	General State Archives	Psychiko	1914			Archived 2025-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Greenland	Greenland National Museum	Nuuk	1982		Ammassalik wooden maps 15th-century mummies and clothing of the Thule / Greenlandic Inuit culture at the Qilakitsoq archaeological site Pearyland Umiaq, the oldest intact skin boat in the world Over 35,000 repatriated cultural objects, originally held in the collections of the National Museum of Denmark
Tɛmplet:Country data Grenada	Grenada National Museum	St. George's	1959		Grenada Plantation Records, 1737-1845
Tɛmplet:Country data Guam	Guam Museum	Hagåtña	1980
Guatemala	Archivo General de Centro América	Guatemala City	1846	Documents dating from 1537 onwards - relating to government, commerce, colonialism, revolutions, religion and more
Guatemala	Guatemala National Police Archives	Guatemala City	Discovered in 2005	80 million pages of documents from, dating from the late 19th-century through the Guatemalan Civil War	Largest recovered collection of state secrets in Latin America Documents detailing kidnappings, torture, murders, and disappearances of the estimated 200,000 civilians who perished during the Guatemalan Civil War
Guinea	National Archives of Guinea	Conakry
Tɛmplet:Country data Guinea-Bissau	Arquivos Históricos Nacionais da República da Guiné-Bissau	Bissau	1984
Guyana	National Archives of Guyana (Tɛmplet:Aka the Walter Rodney Archives)	Georgetown, Guyana	1958

H

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Website
Tɛmplet:Country data Haiti	Archives Nationales d'Haïti	Port-au-Prince	1860
Honduras	Archivo Nacional de Honduras	Tegucigalpa	1880
Tɛmplet:Country data Hong Kong	Government Records Service	Kwun Tong, Kowloon	1989
Hungary	National Archives of Hungary	Budapest	1756	Archived 2025-10-08 at the Wayback Machine

I

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Notable artifacts	Image	Website
Tɛmplet:Country data Iceland	National Archives of Iceland	Reykjavík	1882
India	National Archives of India	New Delhi	1891
Indonesia	National Archives of Indonesia	Jakarta	1819		Largest global archival collection related to the Dutch East India Company	Lahabali kɔligu:National Archives of Indonesia (new location).jpg
Iran	National Library and Archive of Iran	Tehran	1899	55,000 old books, including 28,158 manuscripts and more than 26,000 lithographs featuring old lead printing An Iranian Studies collection that includes 80,410 books, 2,300 dissertations and 6000 journals An Islam Studies collection with 8,203,238 books, magazines and tapes The library has 14 halls with 15 million library items	Smallest known octagonal Quran (3 x 3.3 cm), قرآن هشت ضلعی
Iraq	Iraq National Library and Archive	Baghdad	1920		One of the oldest copies of the Quran (which was destroyed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States)
Ireland	National Archives of Ireland	Dublin	1867		Primary (Griffith) Valuation, 1847-1864 land and buildings value directory
Tɛmplet:Country data Isle of Man	Manx Museum	Douglas, Isle of Man	1922
Tɛmplet:Country data Israel	Israel State Archives	Jerusalem	1949	400 million documents, maps, stamps, audio tapes, video clips, photographs and special publications			Archived 2025-09-17 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Israel	Central Zionist Archives	West Jerusalem	1919		Personal papers of Theodor Herzl, Nahum Sokolow, David Wolffsohn, Max Bodenheimer, Henrietta Szold, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, Haim Arlosoroff and other functionaries of the Zionist movement Files of the General Council (Va'ad Leumi)
Italy	Central Archives of the State	Rome	1875				Archived 2025-09-15 at the Wayback Machine
Ivory Coast	Archives Nationales du Côte d´Ivoire	Abidjan

J

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Website
Tɛmplet:Country data Jamaica	Jamaica Archives and Records Department	Kingston, Jamaica	1955
Japan	National Archives of Japan	Chiyoda, Tokyo	1959
Tɛmplet:Country data Jordan	National Library of Jordan	Amman	1977	Archived 2025-09-10 at the Wayback Machine

K

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Website
Kazakhstan	National Archives of Kazakhstan	Astana	2002
	Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan	Almaty
	Republic of Kazakhstan Presidential Archive	Almaty
Kenya	Kenya National Archives	Nairobi	1965	40,000 volumes	Archived 2019-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Kiribati	Kiribati National Library and Archives	Bairiki
Tɛmplet:Country data Kosovo	National Library of Kosovo	Pristina	1944	382,806 books
Tɛmplet:Country data Kosovo	State Agency of Archives of Kosovo^[2]	Pristina	1977
Tɛmplet:Country data Kuwait	National Library of Kuwait	Kuwait City	1923	465,000 books
Tɛmplet:Country data Kyrgyzstan	National Library of the Kyrgyz Republic	Bishkek	1934
Tɛmplet:Country data Kyrgyzstan	Central State Archives of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek

L

Country	Archive	Location	Year
Lebanon	Centre des Archives Nationales	Beirut
Liberia	Center for National Documents and Records	Monrovia	1977
Tɛmplet:Country data Libya	National Archives of Libya	Tripoli, Libya
Tɛmplet:Country data Liechtenstein	Liechtenstein National Archives	Vaduz	1961
Lithuania	Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania	Vilnius
Tɛmplet:Country data Luxembourg	Archives nationales de Luxembourg (ANLux)

M

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Website
Tɛmplet:Country data Madagascar	National Archives of Madagascar			30,000 volumes
Tɛmplet:Country data Malawi	National Archives of Malawi
Tɛmplet:Country data Malaysia	National Archives of Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	1957
Mali	Direction Nationale des Archives du Mali	Bamako
Malta	National Archives of Malta	Rabat, Malta
Tɛmplet:Country data Marshall Islands	Alele Museum & Public Library
Mauritania	National Archives of Mauritania		1955	3,000 volumes
Tɛmplet:Country data Mauritius	National Archives of Mauritius	Coromandel, Mauritius	1815		Archived 2025-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
Mexico	Archivo General de la Nación	Mexico City
Tɛmplet:Country data Mongolia	National Archives of Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	1927
Tɛmplet:Country data Montenegro	State Archives of Montenegro	Cetinje	1951
Morocco	National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco	Rabat	1924		Archived 2022-12-31 at the Wayback Machine
Mozambique	Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique		1934
Tɛmplet:Country data Myanmar	National Archives of Myanmar	Naypyidaw	1973

N

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Website
Tɛmplet:Country data Namibia	National Archives of Namibia	Windhoek	1939	6,000 maps 40,000 photographs 30,000 audiovisual items	Archived 2025-08-14 at the Wayback Machine
Netherlands	Nationaal Archief	The Hague	1802
Tɛmplet:Country data New Zealand	Archives New Zealand	Wellington
Tɛmplet:Country data Nicaragua	General National Archive	Managua
Tɛmplet:Country data Niger	Archives nationales du Niger^[3]
Nigeria	National Archives of Nigeria	Abuja			Archived 2025-12-18 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Norway	National Archival Services of Norway	Oslo	1817

O

P

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Notable artifacts	Website
Tɛmplet:Country data Pakistan	National Archives of Pakistan	Islamabad		19,000 books		Archived 2025-09-11 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Palestine	Palestine National Archives	Ramallah
	Central Archives of Gaza City	Gaza City
	Al-Budeiri Library	Old City of Jerusalem		900 manuscripts
	Khalidi Library	Old City of Jerusalem	1900		One of Ottoman Palestine's first public libraries and historical document collections
Panama	National Archives of Panama	Panama City	1912
Paraguay	Archivo Nacional de Asunción					Archived 2025-09-15 at the Wayback Machine
Peru	General Archive of the Nation	Lima	1872
Philippines		National Archives of the Philippines	Manila
Poland	Central Archives of Historical Records	Warsaw	1808
Poland	National Digital Archives	Warsaw	2008 (1955)	over 15,000,000 photographs over 40,000 sound recordings about 2,400 motion pictures
Portugal	Torre do Tombo National Archive	Lisbon	1378
Tɛmplet:Country data Puerto Rico	Archivo General de Puerto Rico	San Juan, Puerto Rico	1955

Q

R

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size
Romania	National Archives of Romania	Bucharest		70,000 books
Tɛmplet:Country data Russia	Russian State Archive of Contemporary History	Moscow
	Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History
	Russian State Archive of Literature and Art		1941
	State Archive of the Russian Federation		1992
Tɛmplet:Country data Rwanda	National Archives of Rwanda	Kigali

S

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Website
Tɛmplet:Country data Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	Saharawi National Archive
Tɛmplet:Country data San Marino	State Archives of San Marino
Tɛmplet:Country data Scotland	National Archives of Scotland	Edinburgh
Senegal	National Archives of Senegal	Dakar
Serbia	State Archives of Serbia	Belgrade	1900
Tɛmplet:Country data Seychelles	Seychelles National Archives	Mahé, Seychelles	1964
Singapore	National Archives of Singapore
Tɛmplet:Country data Slovakia	Slovak National Archives	Bratislava	1928
Tɛmplet:Country data Slovenia	Archives of the Republic of Slovenia	Ljubljana
South Africa	National Archives and Records Service of South Africa	Arcadia, Pretoria
South Korea	National Archives of Korea	Daejeon
Tɛmplet:Country data South Sudan	National Archives of South Sudan	Juba
Spain	Archivo Histórico Nacional [es]	Madrid	1866
	General Archive of the Indies	Seville		43,000 volumes 80,000,000 pages
	Archivo General de Simancas	Simancas	1540
Tɛmplet:Country data Sri Lanka	Department of National Archives	Colombo
Tɛmplet:Country data Sudan	National Records Office of Sudan	Khartoum		13,000 volumes 20,000,000 documents
Suriname	National Archives of Suriname	Paramaribo
Sweden	National Archives of Sweden	Stockholm			Archived 2013-11-06 at the Wayback Machine
Switzerland	Swiss Federal Archives	Bern	1798		Archived 2025-09-10 at the Wayback Machine
	Swiss Literary Archives	Bern	1991		^{[permanent dead link]}
	Swiss Film Archive	Lausanne		85,000 films 26,000 books 3,000,000 photographs
	Swiss National Sound Archives	Lugano	1984		Archived 2025-09-10 at the Wayback Machine

T

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Website
Tɛmplet:Country data Taiwan	National Archives Administration, National Development Council	Linkou, New Taipei City	2014	31,098.61 meters of paper documents	Archived 2008-09-17 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data Tanzania	Tanzania National Archives	Dar es Salaam	1962
Tɛmplet:Country data Thailand	National Archives of Thailand	Bangkok		444,009 photographs 808,693 films 20,062 maps and plans
Tɛmplet:Country data Thailand	Thai Film Archive	Nakhon Pathom province
Tɛmplet:Country data Togo	National Archives of Togo	Lomé
Trinidad and Tobago	National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain
Tunisia	National Archives of Tunisia	Tunis
Turkey	Ottoman archives	Istanbul

U

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Notable artifacts	Website
Tɛmplet:Country data Ukraine	State Archival Service of Ukraine				Archived 2025-09-02 at the Wayback Machine
Tɛmplet:Country data United Arab Emirates	National Library and Archives	Abu Dhabi	1968
United Kingdom	The National Archives	Greater London
United Kingdom	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland	Belfast	1923	Bull of Pope Honorius III, dated 1219
United States	National Archives and Records Administration	Washington, D.C.	1934
Uruguay	General Archive of the Nation	Montevideo

V

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Website
Tɛmplet:Country data Vanuatu	National Archives of Vanuatu
Vatican City	Vatican Apostolic Archive	Cortile del Belvedere	1612	^{[permanent dead link]}
Venezuela	National Archives of Venezuela	Caracas

W

X

Y

Z

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Notable artifacts	Image	Website
Tɛmplet:Country data Zambia	National Archives of Zambia	Lusaka		70,000 volumes
Zimbabwe	National Archives of Zimbabwe	Harare	1935

Lihi pahi

Kundivihira

↑ Ceesay, Hassoum (2018). "Doing Archival Research in The Gambia: Locating and Appraising the Sources" (in en). Esboços: histórias em contextos globais 25 (39): 49–67.
↑ Kosovo's forgotten archive - K2.0 (2023-10-12).
↑ Marcel Lajeunesse, ed. (2008). Les Bibliothèques nationales de la francophonie (PDF) (in French) (3rd ed.). Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. OCLC 401164333. Archived from the original on 2022-10-04. Retrieved 2025-09-11.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) Tɛmplet:Free access

External links

Databases and registers - National Archives of Finland.
penrose-press.com - Directory of Libraries by subject and region, 2016 (in English)

[1] Ceesay, Hassoum (2018). "Doing Archival Research in The Gambia: Locating and Appraising the Sources" (in en). Esboços: histórias em contextos globais 25 (39): 49–67.

[2] Kosovo's forgotten archive - K2.0 (2023-10-12).

[BANQ-3] Marcel Lajeunesse, ed. (2008). Les Bibliothèques nationales de la francophonie (PDF) (in French) (3rd ed.). Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. OCLC 401164333. Archived from the original on 2022-10-04. Retrieved 2025-09-11.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) Tɛmplet:Free access

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