National bank

In many countries' contemporary usage, national bank is often used as a synonym for central bank.

In present-day Australia and United States, and in late-19th-century Japan, the expression refers to a category of banks chartered at the national (federal) level:

• National bank (United States)
• National Banks in Meiji Japan

In other countries, National Bank may also refer to the following individual institutions:

Central banks

• National Bank of the Republic of Abkhazia
• National Bank of Angola
• National Bank of the Republic of Belarus
• National Bank of Belgium
• Bulgarian National Bank
• National Bank of Cambodia
• Croatian National Bank
• Czech National Bank
• Danmarks Nationalbank
• National Bank of Ethiopia
• National Bank of Georgia
• Hungarian National Bank
• National Bank of Kazakhstan
• National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic
• National Bank of Liechtenstein
• National Bank of Moldova
• National Bank of North Macedonia
• National Bank of Poland
• National Bank of Romania
• National Bank of Rwanda
• National Bank of Serbia
• National Bank of Slovakia
• Swiss National Bank
• National Bank of Tajikistan
• National Bank of Ukraine

Former central banks:

• National Bank of Czechoslovakia
• National Bank of Haiti
• Privileged National Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia
• National Bank of Yugoslavia

Commercial banks

• National Australia Bank
• Queensland National Bank in Australia
• National Bank of Australasia in Australia
• National Bank of Bahrain
• National Bank Limited in Bangladesh
• National Bank of Canada
• National Bank of Egypt
• Nationalbank für Deutschland, a defunct German bank
• National-Bank in Germany
• First National Bank Ghana
• National Bank of Greece
• Punjab National Bank in India
• National Bank of Kenya
• National Bank of Kuwait
• First National Bank (Lebanon)
• National Bank of New Zealand
• National Bank of Pakistan, a multinational commercial bank that is a subsidiary of the country's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan
• The National Bank (Palestine)
• Philippine National Bank
• Saudi National Bank
• First National Bank (South Africa)
• Hatton National Bank in Sri Lanka
• National Bank of Commerce (Tanzania)
• National Bank of Abu Dhabi, UAE
• National Bank of Dubai, UAE
• National Bank Ltd in the United Kingdom
• National Bank of Scotland, merged in 1969 with Royal Bank of Scotland
• National Bank of Uzbekistan

Other uses

• The National Bank (band), a Norwegian rock band
• National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, a regulatory body in India

See also

• National Bank Act (U.S. law)
• National Bank Building in Johannesburg
• Banque Nationale (disambiguation)
• Nationalbank (disambiguation)
• State bank (disambiguation)
• Royal Bank (disambiguation)