Outposts
A consulate represents one place to another place. There are only a few hundred in the world, and people from somewhere live in thousands of somewhere elses. An outpost is what stands in the gap.
Closed mission, reopened
United States — Xiamen
The former United States consulate on Gulangyu island, Xiamen. A treaty-port post: its work was representing American commercial interests in and around Xiamen. The building still stands and is part of the Gulangyu UNESCO World Heritage site.
Reopened on CultureMesh
Visit the networkElect an Unofficial Consul
A community can choose someone to represent it, for a two-year term, without waiting for anyone's permission. This is the older form of the office: the commercial consul was originally elected by the trading community abroad, before states took over the appointing.
See electionsThe map so far
Districts: 30 · Consuls elected: 0 · Elections running: 1
Early days — most of these were created recently and have a handful of people in them.
| District | People | Presence |
|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen → North Dakota | 1 | No presence |
| Busan → Dallas | 1 | No presence |
| Georgia → Maine | 1 | No presence |
| India → Michigan | 1 | No presence |
| Indonesia → Jakarta | 1 | No presence |
| Indonesia → Michigan | 1 | No presence |
| Kenya → Michigan | 1 | No presence |
| Kosovo → Michigan | 1 | No presence |
| Michigan → New York City | 1 | Nominations open |
| Michigan → California | 1 | No presence |
| New Zealand → Iowa | 1 | No presence |
| Niue → Florida | 1 | No presence |
| Niue → Ohio | 1 | No presence |
| Niue → Idaho | 1 | No presence |
| Niue → Nevada | 1 | No presence |
| South Sudan → Michigan | 1 | No presence |
| Tamil Nadu → Wyoming | 1 | No presence |
| United States → Xiamen | 1 | No presence |
| Venustiano Carranza → Jupiter | 1 | No presence |
| Andhra Pradesh → Houston | 0 | No presence |
| Burundi → Minneapolis | 0 | No presence |
| Busan → New York City | 0 | No presence |
| Chennai → New York City | 0 | No presence |
| Kigali → Kalamazoo | 0 | No presence |
| Mumbai → California | 0 | No presence |
| Mumbai → Atlanta | 0 | No presence |
| South Africa → Michigan | 0 | No presence |
| Tallahassee → Tallahassee | 0 | No presence |
| Zhytomyr → Kolin | 0 | No presence |
| Zhytomyrs'ka Oblast' → Hlavní město Praha | 0 | No presence |
Listing a district is not a claim that anyone represents it. An Unofficial Consul is elected by community members and is not appointed by any government.