National Guard is the name used by a wide variety of current and historical uniformed organizations in different countries. The original National Guard was formed during the French Revolution around a cadre of defectors from the French Guards. National Guard may refer to:

Africa

National Guard (Mauritania) National Guard is the National Guard of Mauritania. It has its headquarters in Nouakchott, located opposite (west) to the College des Garçons College des Garçons is a college in Nouakchott, Mauritania. It is located opposite (west) to the Lycé ...

* Tunisian National Guard, a separate military force of Tunisia

Americas

* National Guard (Brazil) (1831–1918), a paramilitary militia created to support the Brazilian Army *

National Guard (El Salvador) The National Guard ( es, Guardia Nacional) was the national gendarmerie of El Salvador. The National Guard of El Salvador was founded in 1912 by President Dr. Manuel Enrique Araujo as a branch of the Salvadoran Army for policing rural areas. The ...

(1912–1992), the Salvadoran gendarmerie * National Guard (Mexico), a gendarmerie created in 2019. * National Guard (Nicaragua) (1925–1979), a militia and gendarmerie created during the occupation by the United States * National Guard (United States), military reserves organized by each of the 50 U.S. states, territories, D.C. and administered by the

National Guard Bureau The National Guard Bureau is the federal instrument responsible for the administration of the National Guard established by the United States Congress as a joint bureau of the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force. It was cre ...

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Army National Guard The Army National Guard (ARNG), in conjunction with the Air National Guard, is an organized Militia (United States), militia force and a Reserve components of the United States Armed Forces, federal military reserve force of the United States A ...

, a reserve force of the United States Army which functions as the ground component of the state-level militia while not in federal service **

Air National Guard The Air National Guard (ANG), also known as the Air Guard, is a federal military reserve force of the United States Air Force, as well as the air militia of each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the ter ...

, a reserve force of the United States Air Force which functions as the air component of the state-level militia while not in federal service * Venezuelan National Guard (Guardia Nacional de Venezuela), the

gendarmerie Wrong info! --> A gendarmerie () is a military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population. The term ''gendarme'' () is derived from the medieval French expression ', which translates to " men-at-arms" (literally, ...

component of the National Armed Forces of Venezuela

Asia

* Azerbaijani National Guard, an armed force of the Government of Azerbaijan, and operates as a semi-independent entity * National Guard (Bahrain), a separate military force in Bahrain that serves both as defence force and as a security force * National Guard (Iraq), part of the new Military of Iraq absorbed by the Iraqi Army * National Guard of Kazakhstan * National Guard (Kyrgyzstan), one of the regiments of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan * Kuwait National Guard, an internal and border security force, part of Kuwait Military Forces * National Guard (Pakistan), a paramilitary force mainly charged with border patrols and air defences *

Saudi Arabian National Guard The Saudi Arabian National Guard or SANG ( ar, الحَرَس الوَطنيّ, al-Ḥaras al-Waṭanī), also known as the "White Army", is one of the three major branches of the military forces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The national gua ...

, one of the three major branches of the Armed Forces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia * Sri Lanka National Guard, the largest regiment in the Sri Lanka Army * Presidential National Guard, a special operations branch of the Tajik Armed Forces * Turkmen National Guard * Uzbekistan National Guard

Europe

* National Guards Unit of Bulgaria, successor of the Personal Cavalry Convoy of Knyaz Alexander I, re-established in 2001 * Cypriot National Guard, combined arms military force of the Republic of Cyprus * Estonian Defence League, unified paramilitary armed forces of the Republic of Estonia * White Guard (Finland) (1918–1944), voluntary militia of the " Whites", who opposed the " Reds" in the Finnish Civil War of 1918 * National Guard (France), militias formed in each city from the time of the French Revolution to the Paris Commune, re-established after several terrorist attacks in 2016 *

National Guard of Georgia The National Guard of Georgia (NG, ka, საქართველოს ეროვნული გვარდია, ''sak'art'velos erovnuli gvardia'') is a branch of the Defense Forces of Georgia. It is tasked with responding to external ...

, a military structure within the Georgian Armed Forces *

National Guard (Greece) The National Guard ( el, Εθνοφυλακή, Ethnofylakí) is part of the Hellenic Army and are voluntary corps, mainly located in areas near the frontiers, consisted of trained and armed volunteer men (and since 2019 women).Hellenic Army *

National Guard (Ireland) The Army Comrades Association (ACA), later the National Guard, then Young Ireland and finally League of Youth, but best known by the nickname the Blueshirts ( ga, Na Léinte Gorma), was a paramilitary organisation in the Irish Free State, founded ...

, better known as the Blueshirts, a 1930s political movement in Ireland *

National Republican Guard (Italy) The Italian National Republican Guard (''Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana'', or GNR) was a gendarmerie force of the Italian Social Republic created by decree on December 8, 1943, replacing the Carabinieri and the National Security Volunteer Mili ...

, (1943-1945), a paramilitary force of the Italian Social Republic *

Latvian National Guard The Latvian National Guard or NG ( lv, Latvijas Republikas Zemessardze, ZS) is a part of the Latvian National Armed Forces. The National Guard is a basic land component, consisting of volunteers who perform traditional national guard duties such ...

, a volunteer paramilitary armed force, part of National Armed Forces of Latvia * National Republican Guard (Portugal), the gendarmerie of Portugal * National Guard of Russia, gendarmerie force of Russia, formed in 2016 *

National Militia (Spain) The National Militia ( es, milicia nacional) in Spain was a citizen-organized quasi-military force comparable to the National Guard (France), National Guard that arose in France during the French Revolution. Spain's National Militia has its origin ...

, 19th century quasi-military force * National Guard of Ukraine, formed 1991–2000 and 2014–current

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