What is Insular area?
[[File:US insular areas SVG.svg|thumb|600px|Locations of the insular areas ''(blue)'' of the United States ''(pink)''.]] '''Insular area''' is the name for one of the territories of the [[United States]] which are not a state of the union. People that live in these areas usually have no right to [[Voting|vote]] in US [[Election|elections]]. Sometimes, they take part in preliminary elections. There are three areas in the [[Pacific Ocean]]: *[[Guam]] *[[Northern Mariana Islands]] *[[American Samoa]] The following areas are in the [[Caribbean]]: *[[Puerto Rico]] *[[United States Virgin Islands|US Virgin Islands]] == Uninhabited islands == The term is also used for many uninhabited islands, which the US claims as its territory. Most of these are in the Pacific: *[[Palmyra Atoll]] *[[Baker Island]] *[[Howland Island]] *[[Jarvis Island]] *[[Johnston Atoll]] *[[Kingman Reef]] *[[Midway Atoll]] *[[Wake Island]] (disputed with [[Marshall Islands]]) Only a few are in the Caribbean: *[[Navassa Island]] (disputed with [[Haiti]]) *[[Serranilla Bank]] (''disputed with [[Colombia]], [[Jamaica]] and [[Nicaragua]])'' *[[Bajo Nuevo Bank]] or Petrel Islands ''(disputed with Colombia, [[Honduras]] and Jamaica)'' [[Category:Geography of the United States]]