Editing Cape Cod (section)

===Towns and villages===
[[File:Deyo-map.jpg|thumb|Barnstable County historical map, 1890]]

Cape Cod incorporates all of Barnstable County, which comprises 15 towns: [[Bourne, Massachusetts|Bourne]], [[Sandwich, Massachusetts|Sandwich]], [[Falmouth, Massachusetts|Falmouth]], [[Mashpee, Massachusetts|Mashpee]], [[Barnstable, Massachusetts|Barnstable]], [[Yarmouth, Massachusetts|Yarmouth]], [[Harwich, Massachusetts|Harwich]], [[Dennis, Massachusetts|Dennis]], [[Brewster, Massachusetts|Brewster]], [[Chatham, Massachusetts|Chatham]], [[Orleans, Massachusetts|Orleans]], [[Eastham, Massachusetts|Eastham]], [[Wellfleet, Massachusetts|Wellfleet]], [[Truro, Massachusetts|Truro]], and [[Provincetown, Massachusetts|Provincetown]]. Each of these towns includes a number of villages; see [[Barnstable County]] for a complete list.

Barnstable, the most populated municipality on Cape Cod, is the only one to have adopted a city form of government, whose legislative body is an elected 13-member [[city council|council]].<ref name="FormsOfGov">{{cite web |title=Forms of Municipal Government for each community in Massachusetts |url=http://www.mma.org/resources-mainmenu-182/doc_download/26-form-of-government-for-each-community-in-massachusetts |publisher=Massachusetts Municipal Association |date=July 2011 |access-date=May 6, 2013 |format=PDF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615165415/http://www.mma.org/resources-mainmenu-182/doc_download/26-form-of-government-for-each-community-in-massachusetts |archive-date=June 15, 2013 }}</ref><ref name="CityDates">{{cite web|url=http://www.mma.org/resources-mainmenu-182/doc_download/97-establishment-dates-and-forms-of-city-governments|title=Dates of Incorporation and/or Establishing City Form of Government|date=November 13, 2008|publisher=Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development|access-date=May 6, 2013|format=PDF|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004235907/http://www.mma.org/resources-mainmenu-182/doc_download/97-establishment-dates-and-forms-of-city-governments|archive-date=October 4, 2013}}</ref> However, like other smaller Massachusetts cities, Barnstable retained its "Town of Barnstable" moniker. All of the other towns elect a 5-member [[Board of Selectmen]] as the executive policy-setting board and utilize [[Town Meeting]]s as their legislative body.<ref name="FormsOfGov" />