List of largest libraries
Largest libraries in the world

List of largest libraries

Section Title: Largest libraries in the world
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Name	Country	Location	Catalogued size (number of items)	Visitors per year	Budget	Staff

British Library	United Kingdom	London & Leeds	150 - 200 million	1.75 million	£141 million	1977

Library of Congress	United States	Washington D.C.	164 million+	1.8 million	US$642.04 million	3149

New York Public Library	United States	New York	55 million	18 million	US$250 million	3000

Library and Archives Canada	Canada	Ottawa	54 million	C$116.9 million	874

Shanghai Library	China	Shanghai	50 million

Russian State Library	Russia	Moscow	44.4 million	1.17 million	1.64 billion RUB	1972

National Diet Library	Japan	Tokyo and Kyoto	41.9 million	654,000	¥21.8 billion	908

Bibliothèque nationale de France	France	Paris	40 million	1.3 million	€254 million	2668

National Library of China	China	Beijing	37.7 million	5.2 million	1365

National Library of Russia	Russia	Saint Petersburg	36.5 million	1 million

Royal Library	Denmark	Copenhagen	35.4 million+	1.25 million	385.9 million DKK	492.5 (610 in total)

Biblioteca Nacional de España	Spain	Madrid	33.1 million	€29.2 million	482

German National Library	Germany	Leipzig and Frankfurt	34.2 million	180,283	€52.4 million	640

Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences	Russia	Saint Petersburg	26.5 million

Berlin State Library	Germany	Berlin	23.4 million	1.4 million

Boston Public Library	United States	Boston, Massachusetts	22.4 million	US$38.9 million

New York State Library	United States	Albany, New York	20 million

Harvard Library	United States	Cambridge, Massachusetts	18.9 million	922

National Library of Sweden	Sweden	Stockholm	18 million	364.5 million SEK

Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine	Ukraine	Kiev	15.5 million	500,000	50.3 million ₴	900

Yale Library	United States	New Haven, Connecticut	15.2 million

National Library of Iran	Iran	Tehran	15 million	1.4 million

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National Library of China was the world's largest library.

final_sentence: National Library of China was the world's largest library.