Insular is an adjective used to describe:
Insular may also refer to:
Sub-national territories or regions
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Insular Chile
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Insular region of Colombia
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Insular Ecuador, administratively known as Galápagos Province
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Insular Region (Equatorial Guinea)
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Insular Italy
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Insular Portugal, comprises the Madeira and Azores Autonomous Regions
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Insular Southeast Asia
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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
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Berlin, while isolated by the Berlin Wall, from 1961 to 1989
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China, after 1422 until the 19th century
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Japan, during most of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1868), when the Sakoku were in place
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South Africa during apartheid, between 1948 and 1993
Other uses
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Insular ( Insulares), the term used for Criollo people 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, the group of languages spoken by those people
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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, a mutual life insurance company in the Philippines
See also
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Maritime (disambiguation)