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insular area
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Insular area
An
insular area
is a
territory
of the
United States of America
that is neither a part of one of the fifty
U.S. states
nor the U.S.
federal district
of
Washington, D.C.
Such areas are called "insular" from the
Latin
word
insula
("
island
") because they were once administered by the War Department's
Bureau of Insular Affairs
, now the
Office of Insular Affairs
at the
Department of the Interior
. The term
insular possession
is also sometimes used.
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