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Insular is an adjective used to describe: * An
island An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...
* Someone who is isolated and
parochial Parochial is an adjective which may refer to: * Parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a ...
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 area In the law of the United States, an insular area is a U.S.-associated jurisdiction that is not part of a U.S. state or the Washington, D.C., District of Columbia. This includes fourteen Territories of the United States, U.S. territories adminis ...
s 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 The Berlin Wall (, ) was a guarded concrete Separation barrier, barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the East Germany, German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany). Construction of the B ...
, from 1961 to 1989 *
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
, 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'' (''Insulares''), the term used for criollos in the former Spanish East Indies (the Philippines, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands) *
Insular art Insular art, also known as Hiberno-Saxon art, was produced in the sub-Roman Britain, post-Roman era of Great Britain and Ireland. The term derives from ''insula'', the Latin language, Latin term for "island"; in this period Britain and Ireland ...
, 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 Insular Celtic languages are the group of Celtic languages spoken in 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 Br ...
, the group of languages spoken by those people * Insular Christianity, more commonly known as
Celtic Christianity Celtic Christianity is a form of Christianity that was common, or held to be common, across the Celtic languages, Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages. The term Celtic Church is deprecated by many historians as it implies a unifi ...
*
insular cortex The insular cortex (also insula and insular lobe) is a portion of the cerebral cortex folded deep within the lateral sulcus (the fissure separating the temporal lobe from the parietal lobe, parietal and frontal lobes) within each brain hemisphere ...
, a part of the cerebral cortex * Insular dwarfism, a form of phyletic dwarfism *
Insular script Insular script is a Middle Ages, medieval script (styles of handwriting), script system originating in Ireland that spread to England and continental Europe under the influence of Hiberno-Scottish mission, Irish Christianity. Irish missionaries ...
, a medieval script system originally used in Ireland * Insular Life, a mutual life insurance company in the Philippines


See also

* * * Maritime (disambiguation) {{Disambig