The members of the diplomatic personnel of diplomatic missions stationed in a given country. In common sense, a diplomatic corps consists of the heads of embassies and legations, who are residing in a given country. Further, the diplomatic corps includes all individuals who have been given a diplomatic card by the state of residence, including attaches and sometimes even secretaries of the mission.

The head of the diplomatic mission submits a list of individuals for whom diplomatic privileges and immunities are required. The protocol section of the ministry of foreign affairs registers this list and then periodically issues a list of all the members of the diplomatic corps.

The diplomatic corps usually has a senior member, who is senior by class and first in terms of the time he has served in the given country in a particular class of diplomatic representation. He instructs his colleagues on local diplomatic customs and heads the diplomatic corps. The seniority of the head of the representatives of a given class in the diplomatic corps is determined by the date and hour when he began to fulfil his functions. The diplomatic corps is not a political union or organization, and it fulfils only ceremonial (protocol) functions.

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