Insular is an adjective used to describe:
* An
island
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An isla ...
* Someone who is isolated and
parochial Parochial is an adjective which may refer to:
* Parishes, in religion
** Parish churches, also called parochial churches
* Parochial schools, primary or secondary schools affiliated to a religious organisation
* Parochialism
Parochialism is the ...
Insular may also refer to:
Sub-national territories or regions
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Insular Chile
Insular Chile, also called ''Las islas Esporádicas'', or "the Sporadic Islands", is a scattered group of oceanic islands of volcanic origin located in the South Pacific, at some distance from mainland Chile, and which are under the sovereig ...
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Insular region of Colombia
* Insular Ecuador, administratively known as
Galápagos Province
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Insular Region (Equatorial Guinea)
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Insular Italy
* Insular Portugal, comprises the
Madeira and Azores Autonomous Regions
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Insular Southeast Asia
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Insular area
In the law of the United States, an insular area is a U.S.-associated jurisdiction that is not part of the 50 states or the District of Columbia. This includes fourteen U.S. territories administered under U.S. sovereignty, as well as three so ...
s of the United States
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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
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Bureau of Insular Affairs, a unit of the U.S. government's War Department which administered certain insular areas from 1902 to 1939
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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).
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Insular Government of the Philippine Islands, the U.S. territorial government that was established in 1901 and was dissolved in 1935
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Insular Region, Venezuela
Periods of political isolation
* Berlin, while isolated by the
Berlin Wall, from 1961 to 1989
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...
, after 1422 until the 19th century
* Japan, during most of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868), when the
Seclusion laws were in place
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South Africa during apartheid, between 1948 and 1993
Other uses
* ''Insular'' (''Insulares''), the term used for
criollos in the former Spanish East Indies (the Philippines, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands)
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Insular art, the style of art produced in the post-Roman history of the British Isles
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Insular Celts, the Iron Age inhabitants of the British Isles
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Insular Celtic languages
Insular Celtic languages are the group of Celtic languages of Brittany, Great Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man. All surviving Celtic languages are in the Insular group, including Breton, which is spoken on continental Europe in Brittany ...
, the group of languages spoken by those people
* Insular Christianity, more commonly known as
Celtic Christianity
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insular cortex, a part of the cerebral cortex
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Insular dwarfism, a form of phyletic dwarfism
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Insular script, a medieval script system originally used in Ireland
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Insular Life
The Insular Life Assurance Company, Ltd. (commonly known by its trade name, Insular Life, and shortened as InLife) is a mutual life insurance company in the Philippines. Established on November 25, 1910 in Manila, it is the first Filipino life in ...
, a mutual life insurance company in the Philippines
See also
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Maritime (disambiguation)
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