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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National Archives of Afghanistan | Kabul | 1890 | ||||
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General Directorate of Archives | Tirana | 1949 | [1] | |||
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Centre Nationale des Archives | [2] | |||||
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National Archives of Andorra | Andorra la Vella | 1975 | [3] | |||
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Arquivo Histórico Nacional | Luanda | |||||
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General Archive of the Nation | Buenos Aires | 1821 |
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National Archives of Armenia | Yerevan | 1923 | [5] | |||
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National Archives of Aruba | Oranjestad | |||||
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National Archives of Australia | Canberra | 1961 |
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National Film and Sound Archive | Canberra | 1984 |
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Austrian State Archives | Vienna | 1749 | [8] | |||
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National Archive Department | Baku | 2002 | [9] |