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.

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	[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	800,000 photographs 100,000 volumes 3,000 films		[4]
Armenia	National Archives of Armenia	Yerevan	1923			[5]
Aruba	National Archives of Aruba	Oranjestad
Australia	National Archives of Australia	Canberra	1961	40,000,000 items	Griffin drawings Mildenhall photographic collection	[6]
Australia	National Film and Sound Archive	Canberra	1984	2,800,000 items		[7]
Austria	Austrian State Archives	Vienna	1749			[8]
Azerbaijan	National Archive Department	Baku	2002			[9]

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Website
Bahamas	National Archives of the Bahamas	Nassau	1971		[10]
Bangladesh	National Archives of Bangladesh	Dhaka	1973	225,000 volumes	[11]
Barbados	Barbados National Archives	Bridgetown
Belarus	National Archives of Belarus	Minsk	1927		[12]
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	114,000 volumes	[16]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Archive of Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo			[17]
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	[18]
Brunei	Brunei National Archives		1983
Bulgaria	Bulgarian Archives State Agency [bg]	Sofia			[19]
Burkina Faso	National Archives of Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou			[20]

Country	Archive	Location	Year	Collection size	Website
Cambodia	National Archives of Cambodia	Phnom Penh			[21]
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	[22]
Cape Verde	Arquivo Histórico Nacional	Praia	1988		[23]
Chile	National Archives of Chile	Santiago	1927		[24]
China	National Archives Administration of China (a.k.a. the Central Archives)	Beijing	1954	80,000,000 items	[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	4,000 photographs	[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]

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