What's the smallest non-capital city with a foreign consulate?
As an example, the city of Haifa (population 280k) has a Russian consulate in addition to the main embassy in Tel Aviv. The Haifa consulate is full fledged and can issue visas, not just an honorary outpost. Is there a smaller non-capital city that has a foreign consulate or embassy?
The exact conditions are:
- The diplomatic outpost must be an embassy or a consulate, not an "honorary consulate"
- It must interact with the general public in some way, e.g. issue visas or provide consular assistance to citizens
- It must be staffed permanently, not just a few times per year
- City here is defined as the largest settlement within a 50km radius from where the consulate is located. E.g. an embassy across the river from Manhattan would count as a New York City consulate, not as a New Jersey consulate.
- The city must not be the official capital of that country
- "Smallest" is defined by the total population of the city in question
Best Answer
México has a consulate in Presidio, TX, which has a population of around 4500.
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Answer 2
The city of Airar in the island nation of Palau hosts the embassy of the United States of America, even though it is not the capital of Palau. Airar had a population of 2455 in 2015. The embassy provides services to US citizens.
Answer 3
This is tentative because I can't find proof it...
A couple of years ago I saw a documentary about the research bases on Antartica. (Probably on Discovery or Natiopnal geograhic Channel, I don't remember.)
According to that documentary the various base-commanders have limited consular or ambassadorial powers. These bases can be isolated from the outside world for months and often have people of several nationalities on base. In order to be able to deal with certain things themselves the base-commanders have wide-ranging authority.
I tried to find some conclusive evidence that this is true, but I can't.
If this is true one could argue (since Antartica doesn't have a capital) that all these bases are "outside the capital" and given the very low number of people on each base it would probably beat the current (Barentsburg) best answer easily.
Answer 4
The town of Puerto Obaldía in Panama has a Colombian consulate (not an honorary consulate). There are some photos of the consulate here.
Puerto Obaldía only host 672 people according to Wiki.
This town is literally in the middle of nowhere. It has no access to any roads (its located in the Darien gap) and only has a small airfield to connect it to the outside world.
I believe it could the smallest non-capital city with a full time operational consulate in the world.
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