What is the difference between a consul/consulate and an ambassador/embassy?

Question

What is the difference between a consul/consulate and an ambassador/embassy?

Answer 1

a consulate is the premis for a consul-

and an embassy is a premis/office/headquaters for ambassadors.

~Ash~

Answer 2

The title Consul is used for the official representatives of the government of one state in the territory of another, normally acting to assist and protect the citizens of the consul's own country, and to facilitate trade and friendship between the people of the country to whom he or she is accredited and the country of which he or she is a representative. This distinguishes the consul from the ambassador or chargé d'affaires, who is, technically, a representative from one head of state to another. Thus, while there is but one ambassador representing a nation's head of state to another, and his or her duties revolve around diplomatic relations between the two countries, there may be several consuls, one in each of several main cities, providing assistance with bureaucratic issues to both the citizens of the consul's own country travelling or living abroad, and to the citizens of the country the consul is in who wish to travel to or trade with the consul's country.

An ambassador is a diplomatic official accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization, to serve as the official representative of his or her own country. In everyday usage it applies to the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an Embassy, whose territory, staff, and even vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country.

The office of a Consul is termed a Consulate, and is usually subordinate to the state's main representation in that foreign country, nowadays usually an Embassy (or High Commission between Commonwealth countries, many of which still have the British Monarch as common Head of State) usually in the capital city of the host state. In the capital, the consulate may be a part of the embassy itself.

That's how it goes.**