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Insular is an adjective used to describe:

• An island
• Someone who is isolated and parochial

Insular may also refer to:

Sub-national territories or regions

• Insular Chile
• Insular region of Colombia
• Insular Ecuador, administratively known as Galápagos Province
• Insular Region (Equatorial Guinea)
• Insular Italy
• Insular Portugal, comprises the Madeira and Azores Autonomous Regions
• Insular Southeast Asia
• Insular areas of the United States
  • Insular Cases, a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 1901, about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American War
  • Bureau of Insular Affairs, a unit of the U.S. government's War Department which administered certain insular areas from 1902 to 1939
  • Office of Insular Affairs, a unit of the U.S. Department of the Interior that oversees federal administration of several insular areas (and the successor to the Bureau of Insular Affairs).
  • Insular Government of the Philippine Islands, the U.S. territorial government that was established in 1901 and was dissolved in 1935
• Insular Region, Venezuela

Periods of political isolation

• Berlin, while isolated by the Berlin Wall, from 1961 to 1989
• China, after 1422 until the 19th century
• Japan, during most of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1868), when the Seclusion laws were in place
• South Africa during apartheid, between 1948 and 1993

Other uses

• "Insular", a song by Moka Only from the albums Clap Trap, 2008; and Carrots and Eggs, 2008
• Insular (Insulares), the term used for criollos in the former Spanish East Indies (the Philippines, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands)
• Insular art, the style of art produced in the post-Roman history of the British Isles
• Insular Celts, the Iron Age inhabitants of the British Isles
• Insular Celtic languages, the group of languages spoken by those people
• Insular Christianity, more commonly known as Celtic Christianity
• insular cortex, a part of the cerebral cortex
• Insular dwarfism, a form of phyletic dwarfism
• Insular script, a medieval script system originally used in Ireland
• Insular Life, a mutual life insurance company in the Philippines

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Insular
• All pages with titles containing Insular
• Maritime (disambiguation)