title: Insular
text: # Insular
  
  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 (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
  