West-Cod (municipality)

With only 109,959 inhabitants (1 January 2013), West-Cod (Kronenburgish: Westerteor) is the smallest municipality in Kronenburg. Founded in 1677, it is in fact an exclave, as the municipality isn't located near the rest of Kronenburg, but northwest of Cape Cod (Massachusetts, U.S.A.). West-Cod is composed of the island of Queen Amalialand (Koningin Amalialand) with the city of West-Cod and the village of Sint Hubertus, the island of Trinitas (with the village with the same name) and the island of Pax Christi (with the village of Nes).

People and status of the municipality

The inhabitants of West-Cod tend to be very conservative christians and the more progressive ones often leave the municipality for Alexanderstad or Boston (U.S.). The population density has been decreasing for some years now.

Because of the distance to the main part of Kronenburg, the people in West-Cod speak Dutch, (American) English and a mixture of both. The unofficial Kronenburgish language that is spoken in the rest of Kronenburg, is not understood here and this is one of the problems to be solved before Kronenburgish will become the official language of Kronenburg in 2013. There are a few scenarios that may be considered:

• West-Cod remains a normal municipality of Kronenburg, which means that its inhabitants will have to adapt to the existance of Kronenburgish as official language;
• West-Cod gets the status of overseas municipality of Kronenburg, much like New-Stavoren already has;
• West-Cod will become an autonomous overseas province of Kronenburg, like the Kronenburg Virgin Islands and the White Islands (although their status is currently discussed as well).

Although the second and the third option are the most preferred among the people of West-Cod, politicians in Alexanderstad fears that Kronenburg will eventually fall apart if all municipalities start asking for more autonomy. Recently, a fourth option was brought up: West-Cod could be re-united with the White Islands (in the past, the latter was part of West-Cod) as some sort of combined, but federated autonomous overseas province, with autonomy for both parts. The first reaction from the White Islands were not very positive however, as the White Islands are still far smaller than West-Cod and it is feared that West-Cod will have completely different foreign interests than the White Islands.

Mayors

#	mayor of West-Cod	took office	left office	remarks
1	Jan Kleinsma	1677	1685
2	Evert Jansma	1685	1691
3	Jelle Weerstra	1691	1693
4	Oeds Joustra Tadema	1693	1707
5	Fokko Kleinsma	1707	1715
6	Hendrik Halsema	1716	1720
7	Jacob Fedzema	1720	1737
8	Jan Wubs	1737	1744
9	Oene Fopma	1744	1749
10	Tijmen Blyham	1749	1755
11	Art Geertsema Sipma	1755	1769
12	Abel Kleinsma Tadema	1769	1772
13	Freark Halsema I	1772	1796	cousin of his successor
14	Freark Halsema II	1796	1819	cousin of his predecessor
15	Oene Halsema	1819	1823
16	Alexander Esdoorn	1823	1846
17	Lammert Fopma Tadema	1846	1854
18	Geart Jansma	1854	1870
19	Johannes Halsema	1870	1884
20	Fokko Timmer	1884	1893
21	Mart Bielsma	1893	1901
22	Thijmen Fedzema Abbega	1901	1903
23	Tjaard van der Zee I	1903	1915	father of Tjaard van der Zee II
24	Bas van Ten Boer	1915	1921
25	Tjaard van der Zee II	1921	1926	son of Tjaard van der Zee I
26	Harm Wubs	1926	1931
27	Frederik Bylsma Visser	1931	1938
28	Henryk Terpstra	1938	1941
	Norman Johnsson	1941	1947	appointed by U.S. administration
29	Mark Veeman	1947	1953
30	Piter Venekamp	1953	1967
31	Arnold Okkema Jansma	1967	1976
32	Hans Preuss	1976	1986
33	Willem Klaassen	1986	1989
34	Lykele Nijhuis	1989	2003
35	Tjaard van der Zee III	2003	2010
36	Hylke Fopma Tadema	2010	incumbent