List of national libraries

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This is a list of national libraries of the world. A national library is a library specifically established by the government of a nation to serve as the preeminent repository of information for that country. Unlike public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books. Often, they include numerous rare, valuable, or significant works; such as the Library of Congress's Gutenberg Bible. National libraries are usually notable for their size, compared to that of other libraries in the same country.

Some national entities which are not independent but who wish to preserve their particular culture, have established a national library with all the attributes of such institutions, such as legal deposit.

National libraries of Europe participate in The European Library. This is a service of The Conference of European National Librarians (CENL).

The list below is organized alphabetically by country. A "*" indicates a national library of a non-sovereign nation. It is listed under the sovereign state which governs that nation.

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[edit] A

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Afghanistan Afghanistan National Library of Afghanistan Kabul
Flag of Albania Albania Biblioteka Kombetare (National Library) Tirana 1922 1996 973,644 [1]
Flag of Algeria Algeria Bibliothèque nationale d'Algérie (National Library of Algeria) Algiers [2]
Flag of Andorra Andorra Biblioteca Nacional d'Andorra Andorra la Vella [3]
Flag of Angola Angola Biblioteca Nacional de Angola Luanda [4]
Flag of Argentina Argentina Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina Buenos Aires [5]
Flag of Armenia Armenia National Library of Armenia Yerevan [6]
Flag of Australia Australia National Library of Australia Canberra [7]
Flag of Austria Austria Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Vienna [8]
Flag of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Akhundov National Library (National Library of Azerbaijan) Baku [9]

[edit] B

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of the Bahamas Bahamas College of The Bahamas Library (de facto) Nassau [10]
Flag of Bahrain Bahrain Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa National Library (under construction) Manama [11]
Flag of Bangladesh Bangladesh National Library of Bangladesh Dhaka [12]
Flag of Barbados Barbados National Library Service of Barbados Bridgetown [13]
Flag of Belarus Belarus The National Library of Belarus (Национальная библиотека Белоруссии) Minsk [14]
Flag of Belgium Belgium Royal Library of Belgium Bruxelles [15]
Flag of Belize Belize National Library Service of Belize Belize City [16]
Flag of Benin Benin Bibliothèque nationale du Bénin Porto Novo [17]
Flag of Bermuda Bermuda Bermuda Library Hamilton
Flag of Bhutan Bhutan National Library of Bhutan Thimphu [18]
Flag of Bolivia Bolivia Biblioteca y Archivo Nacional de Bolivia (National Library and Archive of Bolivia) Sucre [19]
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Nacionalna i univerzitetska biblioteka Bosne i Hercegovine (National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina) Sarajevo [20]
Flag of Botswana Botswana National Library Service of Botswana Gaborone [21]
Flag of Brazil Brazil Fundação Biblioteca Nacional Rio de Janeiro [22]
Flag of Brunei Brunei Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Library (Dewan Bahasa and Pustaka Brunei Library) Bandar Seri Begawan [23]
Flag of Bulgaria Bulgaria SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library Sofia [24]
Flag of Burkina Faso Burkina Faso Bibliothèque nationale du Burkina Faso Ouagadougou [25]
Flag of Burundi Burundi Bibliothèque nationale du Burundi Bujumbura

[edit] C

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Cambodia Cambodia National Library of Cambodia Phnom Penh [26]
Flag of Cameroon Cameroon Bibliothèque nationale du Cameroun Yaounde [27]
Flag of Canada Canada Library and Archives Canada Ottawa [28]
CISTI - National Science Library Ottawa [29]
* Flag of Quebec • Quebec Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec Montreal [30]
Flag of Cape Verde Cape Verde Biblioteca Nacional de Cabo Verde (BNCV; National Library of Cape Verde) [31]
Flag of the Central African Republic Central African Republic
Flag of Chad Chad National Archives N'Djamena [32]
Flag of Chile Chile Biblioteca Nacional de Chile Santiago [33]
Flag of the People's Republic of China People's Republic of China National Library of China (中国国家图书馆) Beijing [34]
* Flag of Macau • Macau Biblioteca Central de Macau (澳門中央圖書館, Macau Central Library) Macau [35]
Flag of the Republic of China Republic of China (Taiwan) National Central Library (國家圖書館) Taipei [36]
Flag of Colombia Colombia Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia Bogotá [37]
Flag of the Comoros Comores National Centre for Documentation and Scientific Research Moroni [38]
Flag of the Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Bibliothèque nationale populaire Brazzaville [39]
Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Bibliothèque nationale de la République démocratique du Congo Kinshasa
Flag of Costa Rica Costa Rica Biblioteca Nacional de Salud y Seguridad Social (National Library of Health and Social Security) San José [40]
Flag of Côte d'Ivoire Côte d'Ivoire Bibliothèque nationale de Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan
Flag of Croatia Croatia Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica (National and University Library) Zagreb [41]
Flag of Cuba Cuba Biblioteca Nacional José Martí Habana [42]
Flag of Cyprus Cyprus Cyprus Library (Κυπριακής Βιβλιοθήκης) Nicosia [43]
Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic Národní knihovna České republiky Prague [44]

[edit] D

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Denmark Denmark Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Royal Library) Copenhagen [45]
Danmarks Natur og Lægevidenskabelig Bibliotek (Danish National Library of Science and Medicine) Copenhagen [46]
Danmarks Veterinær og Jordbrugsbibliotek (National Veterinary and Agricultural Library) Frederiksberg [47]
Danmarks Pædagogiske Bibliotek (National Library of Education) Copenhagen [48]
* Flag of Greenland • Greenland Nunatta Atuagaateqarfia (Det Grønlandske Landsbibliotek, Public and National Library of Greenland) Nuuk [49]
Flag of Djibouti Djibouti
Flag of the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic Biblioteca Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña Santo Domingo [50]

[edit] E

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Ecuador Ecuador Biblioteca Nacional del Ecuador (National Library of Ecuador) Quito [51]
Flag of Egypt Egypt Egyptian National Library and Archives Cairo [52]
Egyptian National Agricultural Library Giza [53]
Flag of El Salvador El Salvador Biblioteca Nacional de El Salvador (National Library of El Salvador) San Salvador [54]
Flag of Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea Ministry of Education and Sciences Malabo [55]
Flag of Eritrea Eritrea University of Eritrea Library Asmara [56]
Flag of Estonia Estonia Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu (National Library of Estonia) Tallinn [57]
Flag of Ethiopia Ethiopia National Archives and Library of Ethiopia Addis Ababa [58]

[edit] F

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of the Faroe Islands Faroe Islands Føroya landsbókasavn Tórshavn [59]
Flag of Fiji Fiji Library Service of Fiji Suva [60]
Flag of Finland Finland Kansalliskirjasto (National Library) Helsinki [61]
Flag of France France Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France) Paris [62]

[edit] G

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Gabon Gabon Direction générale des Archives nationales, de la Bibliothèque nationale et de la Documentation gabonaise (DGABD) Libreville [63]
Flag of The Gambia The Gambia National Library of The Gambia Banjul [64]
Flag of Georgia (country) Georgia National Parliamentary Library of Georgia Tbilisi [65]
Flag of Germany Germany German National Library, with duties shared between:
— Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig
— Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfurt		 Leipzig [66]
Frankfurt am Main
Deutsches Musikarchiv Berlin (German Music Archive) Berlin
Flag of Ghana Ghana Ghana Library Board Accra [67]
Flag of Greece Greece National Library of Greece (Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη της Ελλάδος) Athens [68]
Flag of Guatemala Guatemala Biblioteca Nacional de Guatemala (National Library of Guatemala) Guatemala City [69]
Flag of Guinea Guinea Bibliothèque nationale de Guinée Conakry [70]
Flag of Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa (INEP, National Institute for Studies and Research) Bairro-Cobornel [71]
Flag of Guyana Guyana National Library of Guyana Georgetown [72]

[edit] H

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Haiti Haiti Bibliothèque nationale d'Haïti Port-au-Prince [73]
Flag of Honduras Honduras Biblioteca Nacional de Honduras (National Library of Honduras) Tegucigalpa [74]
Flag of Hungary Hungary National Széchényi Library (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár) Budapest [75]

[edit] I

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Iceland Iceland Landsbókasafn Íslands Háskólabókasafn (National and University Library of Iceland) Reykjavík [76]
Flag of India India National Library of India Calcutta [77]
National Science Library of India New Delhi [78]
Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre (INSDOC) New Delhi [79]
Flag of Indonesia Indonesia National Library of Indonesia (Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia) Central Jakarta [80]
Flag of Iran Iran National Library of Iran Tehran [81]
Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi Mashad [82]
Tabriz National Library Tabriz [83]
Malek National Library Tehran [84]
Flag of Iraq Iraq Iraq National Library and Archive Baghdad [85]
Flag of Ireland Ireland Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann (National Library of Ireland) Dublin [86]
Flag of Israel Israel Jewish National and University Library Jerusalem [87]
Flag of Italy Italy Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze (National Central Library Florence) Florence [88]
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma (National Central Library in Rome) Rome [89]

[edit] J

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Jamaica Jamaica National Library of Jamaica Kingston [90]
Flag of Japan Japan National Diet Library Tokyo [91]
Flag of Jordan Jordan National Library of Jordan Amman [92]

[edit] K

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan National Library of Kazakhstan (Национальная библиотека Республики Казахстан) Almaty [93]
Flag of Kenya Kenya National Library Service of Kenya Nairobi [94]
Flag of Kiribati Kiribati National Library and Archives of Kiribati Bairiki [95]
Flag of North Korea North Korea Grand People's Study House Pyongyang [96]
Flag of South Korea South Korea National Library of Korea Seoul [97]
National Digital Library [98]
National Library for Children and Young Adults [99]
Flag of Kuwait Kuwait National Library of Kuwait Kuwait [100]
Flag of Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan National Library of the Kyrgyz Republic Bishkek [101]

[edit] L

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Laos Laos National Library of Laos Vientiane [102]
Flag of Latvia Latvia Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka Rīga [103]
Flag of Lebanon Lebanon Lebanon National Library (Bibliotheque Nationale du Liban) Beirut  
Flag of Lesotho Lesotho Lesotho National Library Maseru [104]
Flag of Libya Libya National Library of Libya Benghazi [105]
Flag of Liechtenstein Liechtenstein Liechtensteinische Landesbibliothek (Liechtenstein State Library) Vaduz [106]
Flag of Lithuania Lithuania Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania Vilnius [107]
Flag of Luxembourg Luxembourg Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg (National Library of Luxembourg) Luxembourg [108]

[edit] M

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of the Republic of Macedonia Republic of Macedonia National and University Library St. Kliment Ohridski Skopje [109]
Flag of Madagascar Madagascar Bibliothèque nationale de Madagascar Antananarivo
Flag of Malawi Malawi National Library Service of Malawi Lilongwe [110]
Flag of Malaysia Malaysia Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia Kuala Lumpur [111]
Flag of the Maldives Maldives National Library of the Maldives Galolhu Malé [112]
Flag of Mali Mali Bibliothèque nationale du Mali Bamako [113]
Flag of Malta Malta National Library of Malta Valetta [114]
Flag of the Marshall Islands Marshall Islands Alele Museum, Library and National Archives Majuro [115]
Flag of Mauritania Mauritania Bibliothèque nationale de Mauritanie Nouakchott [116]
Flag of Mauritius Mauritius National Library of Mauritius Port Louis [117]
Flag of Mexico Mexico Biblioteca Nacional de México Mexico City [118]
Hemeroteca Nacional de México (National Newspaper and Periodicals Library of Mexico) Mexico City [119]
Flag of Moldova Moldova Biblioteca Naţională a Republicii Moldova (National Library of Moldova) Chişinău [120]
Flag of Monaco Monaco Bibliothèque Louis Notari Monaco [121]
Flag of Mongolia Mongolia State Public Library of Mongolia Ulaanbaatar [122]
Flag of Montenegro Montenegro Centralna narodna biblioteka Republike Crne Gore (Central National Library of the Republic of Montenegro) Cetinje [123]
Flag of Morocco Morocco Bibliothèque Générale et Archives Rabat and Tétouan [124]
Flag of Mozambique Mozambique Biblioteca Nacional de Moçambique Maputo [125]
Flag of Burma Myanmar National Library of Myanmar Yangon [126]

[edit] N

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Namibia Namibia National Library of Namibia Windhoek [127]
Flag of Nepal Nepal National Library of Nepal Pulchowk, Lalitpur [128]
Flag of the Netherlands Netherlands Koninklijke Bibliotheek The Hague [129]
* Flag of Aruba • Aruba Biblioteca Nacional Aruba (Aruba National Library) Oranjestad [130]
Flag of New Zealand New Zealand National Library of New Zealand Wellington [131]
* Flag of the Cook Islands • Cook Islands Cook Islands Library and Museum Society Rarotonga [132]
Flag of Nicaragua Nicaragua Biblioteca Nacional Rubén Darío Managua [133]
Biblioteca Nacional de Salud (National Health Library) Managua? [134]
Flag of Nigeria Nigeria National Library of Nigeria Lagos [135]
Flag of Norway Norway Nasjonalbiblioteket Oslo [136]

[edit] O

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Oman Oman Sultan Qaboos University Library Muscat [137]

[edit] P

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Pakistan Pakistan National Library of Pakistan Islamabad [138]
Flag of Panama Panama Biblioteca Nacional de Panamá Panama City [139]
Flag of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea National Library of Papua New Guinea Boroko [140]
Flag of Paraguay Paraguay Biblioteca y Archivo Nacional de Paraguay Asunción [141]
Flag of Peru Peru Biblioteca Nacional del Perú Lima [142]
Flag of the Philippines Philippines National Library of the Philippines Manila [143]
Flag of Poland Poland National Library of Poland(Biblioteka Narodowa) Warsaw [144]
Flag of Portugal Portugal Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal Lisbon [145]

[edit] Q

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Qatar Qatar National Library of Qatar Doha [146]

[edit] R

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Romania Romania Biblioteca Naţională a României Bucharest [147]
Flag of Russia Russia Russian State Library (Российская Государственная Библиотека) Moscow [148]
Russian National Library (Российская национальная библиотека) St. Petersburg [149]
Flag of Rwanda Rwanda Bibliothèque nationale du Rwanda Kigali [150]

[edit] S

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis Charles A. Halbert Public Library Basseterre
Flag of Saint Lucia Saint Lucia Central Library of Saint Lucia Castries [151]
Flag of San Marino San Marino Biblioteca di Stato e Beni Librari San Marino
Flag of Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia King Fahad National Library Riyadh [152]
Flag of Senegal Senegal Archives nationales du Sénégal Dakar [153]
Flag of Serbia Serbia National Library of Serbia — Народна библиотека Србије Belgrade [154]
Library of Matica srpska — Biblioteka Matice srpske Novi Sad 3,000,000 [155]
Flag of the Seychelles Seychelles National Library of the Seychelles Mahé [156]
Flag of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Library Board Freetown [157]
Flag of Singapore Singapore National Library, Singapore Singapore 8,857,677 (FY2005) [158]
Flag of Slovakia Slovakia Slovenská národná knižnica (Slovak National Library) Martin [159]
Flag of Slovenia Slovenia Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica (National and University Library) Ljubljana [160]
Flag of the Solomon Islands Solomon Islands National Library Service of the Solomon Islands Honiara [161]
Flag of Somalia Somalia National Library of Somalia Mogadishu [162]
Flag of South Africa South Africa National Library of South Africa — Nasionale Biblioteek van Suid Afrika Pretoria [163]
Cape Town
Flag of Spain Spain Biblioteca Nacional de España Madrid [164]
* Flag of Catalonia • Catalonia Biblioteca de Catalunya Barcelona [165]
Flag of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka National Library of Sri Lanka Colombo [166]
Flag of Sudan Sudan National Records Office (archives) Khartoum [167]
Flag of Swaziland Swaziland Swaziland National Library Service Mbabane [168]
Flag of Sweden Sweden Kungliga Biblioteket Stockholm [169]
Flag of Switzerland Switzerland Swiss National Library — Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek — Bibliothèque nationale suisse — Biblioteca Nazionale Svizzera Berne [170]
Flag of Syria Syria Al-Assad National Library Damascus [171]

[edit] T

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Tajikistan Tajikistan State Republic Library Dushanbe [172]
Flag of Tanzania Tanzania Tanzania Library Service Dar es Salaam [173]
Flag of Thailand Thailand National Library of Thailand (หอสมุดแห่งชาติ) Bangkok [174]
Flag of Togo Togo Bibliothèque nationale du Togo Lomé [175]
Flag of Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago National Library and Information System Port of Spain [176]
Flag of Tunisia Tunisia Bibliothèque nationale de Tunisie Tunis [177]
Flag of Turkey Turkey Milli Kütüphane (National Library) Ankara [178]
Flag of Turkmenistan Turkmenistan National Library of Turkmenistan Ashgabat [179]
Flag of Tuvalu Tuvalu National Library and Archives of Tuvalu Funafuti [180]

[edit] U

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Uganda Uganda National Library of Uganda Kampala [181]
Flag of Ukraine Ukraine Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Національна бібліотека України імені В.І. Вернадського) Kiev [182]
Flag of the United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates Cultural Foundation National Library Abu Dhabi [183]
Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom British Library London [184]
Boston Spa (Wetherby)
* Flag of Scotland • Scotland National Library of Scotland Edinburgh [185]
* Flag of Wales • Wales National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru) Aberystwyth [186]
Flag of the United States United States Library of Congress (de facto) Washington, D.C. [187]
National Library of Medicine Bethesda [188]
National Agricultural Library Beltsville [189]
National Archives and Records Administration College Park [190]
Flag of Uruguay Uruguay Biblioteca Nacional del Uruguay Montevideo [191]
Flag of Uzbekistan Uzbekistan National Library of Uzbekistan Tashkent [192]

[edit] V

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Vanuatu Vanuatu National Library of Vanuatu Port Vila [193]
Flag of the Vatican City Vatican City Vatican Library (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) Vatican City [194]
Flag of Venezuela Venezuela Biblioteca Nacional de Venezuela Caracas [195]
Flag of Vietnam Vietnam National Library of Vietnam Hanoi [196]

[edit] W

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
Year stops Book
Flag of Wales Wales National Library of Wales Aberystwyth [197]

[edit] Z

Country Library City Tenable time Quantity Official website
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Flag of Zambia Zambia Zambia Library Service Lusaka [198]
Flag of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe National Free Library of Zimbabwe Bulawayo [199]

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