All National and State Archives in Poland are under the jurisdiction of the Executive Office of the State Archives.

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Poland currently has four National Archives:

• Central Archives of Historical Records (Polish: Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych)

• National Digital Archive (Polish: Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe)

• Central Archives of Modern Records (Polish: Archiwum Akt Nowych)

• National Archive of Personal and Wage Documentation (Polish: Archiwum Państwowe Dokumentacji Osobowej i  Płacowej)

and a State Archive which has been renamed a National Archive:

• National Archives in Krakow

The Executive Office of State Archives has this map with the territorial scope of the various state archives in various shaded colors and the province/voivodeships outlined in red.

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National Archives of Poland territorial scope of each state archive

There are 30 State Archives in Poland with 41 branches:

• State Archives in Bialystok

  Branch in Lomza

• State Archives in Bydgoszcz

  Branch in Inowrocław

• State Archives in Częstochowa

• State Archives in Gdansk

  Gdynia Branch

• State Archives in Gorzow Wielkopolski

• State Archives in Kalisz

• State Archives in Katowice

  Branch in Bielsko-Biala

  Branch in Cieszyn

  Branch in Gliwice

  Branch Pless

  Branch in Raciborz

• State Archives in Kielce

  Branch in Sandomierz

• State Archives in Koszalin

  Branch in Slupsk

  Branch Szczecinek

• National Archives in Krakow

  Branch in Bochnia

  Branch in Nowy Sacz

  Branch in Tarnów

  Branch of Nowy Targ

  Branch of the Spytkowice

• State Archives in Leszno

• State Archive in Lublin

  Branch in Chelm

  Branch Kraśnik

  Branch in Radzyń Podlaski

• State Archives in Lodz

  Branch in Sieradz

• State Archives in Malbork

• State Archives in Olsztyn

• State Archives in Opole

• State Archives in Piotrkow Trybunalski

  Branch in Tomaszów Mazowiecki

• State Archives in Plock

  Branch in Kutno

  Branch in Łęczyca

• State Archives in Poznan

  Branch in Gniezno

  Branch in Konin

  Branch in Piła

• State Archives in Przemysl

• State Archives in Radom

• State Archives in Rzeszów

  Sanok Branch

• State Archives in Siedlce

• State Archives in Suwalki

  Branch in Elk

• State Archives in Szczecin

  Branch Międzyzdroje

  Branch in Stargard

  Branch of the Strzemiel

• State Archives in Toruń

  Branch in Wloclawek

• State Archives in Warsaw

  Branch in Grodzisk Mazowiecki

  Branch in Łowicz

  Branch in Mlawa

  Branch in Otwock

  Branch in Pułtusk

  Archive of Personal and Payroll Documentation

• State Archives in Wrocław

  Branch in Bolesławiec

  Branch in Jelenia Góra

  Branch in Kamieniec Ząbkowicki

  Branch in Legnica

• State Archives in Zamość

• State Archives in Zielona Góra