Insular
# 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
