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- Insular_area abstract "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.Congress has extended citizenship rights by birth to all inhabited territories except American Samoa, and these citizens may vote and run for office in any U.S. jurisdiction in which they are residents. The people of American Samoa are U.S. nationals by place of birth, or they are U.S. citizens by parentage, or naturalization after residing in a State three months. Nationals are free to move around and seek employment within the United States without immigration restrictions but cannot vote or hold office outside of American Samoa.Residents of insular areas do not pay U.S. federal income taxes but are required to pay other U.S. federal taxes such as import/export taxes, federal commodity taxes, social security taxes, etc. Individuals working for the federal government pay federal income taxes while all residents are required to pay federal payroll taxes (Social Security and Medicare).The U.S. State Department uses the term insular area to refer not only to these territories under the sovereignty of the United States, but also those independent nations that have signed a Compact of Free Association with the United States. While these nations participate in many otherwise domestic programs, they are legally distinct from the United States and their inhabitants are not United States citizens or nationals.U.S. insular areas can be incorporated territories (i.e., incorporated within all provisions of the U.S. Constitution) or unincorporated (areas in which the U.S. Constitution applies partially). From the organization of the Northwest Territory in 1789, all areas not admitted as States were under the direct control of Congress as organized incorporated territories, with some political autonomy at the local level. Since the admission of Hawaii to the Union in 1959, there have been no incorporated territories other than the uninhabited Palmyra Atoll (formerly part of the Hawaii Territory, it was excluded from the act of admission). Several overseas unincorporated territories are now independent countries including Cuba, the Philippines, Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau.Unlike within the states, sovereignty over insular areas rests not with the local people, but in Congress. In most areas, Congress has granted considerable self-rule through an Organic Act which functions as a local constitution. The Northwest Ordinance grants territories the right to send a non-voting delegate to the U.S. Congress. The United States government is part of several international disputes over the disposition of certain maritime and insular sovereignties some of which would be considered territories. See International territorial disputes of the United States.".
- Insular_area thumbnail US_insular_areas-B.png?width=300.
- Insular_area wikiPageExternalLink Ch7GARM.pdf.
- Insular_area wikiPageExternalLink islandfactsheet.htm.
- Insular_area wikiPageExternalLink political_types.htm.
- Insular_area wikiPageExternalLink rubin.htm.
- Insular_area wikiPageID "509766".
- Insular_area wikiPageLength "11150".
- Insular_area wikiPageOutDegree "67".
- Insular_area wikiPageRevisionID "683766431".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink American_Samoa.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Associated_state.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Autonomy.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Bajo_Nuevo_Bank.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Bureau_of_Insular_Affairs.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Caribbean.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Category:Dependent_territories.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Category:Insular_areas_of_the_United_States.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Category:Subdivisions_of_the_United_States.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Category:Types_of_country_subdivisions.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Commonwealth_(U.S._insular_area).
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Commonwealth_(United_States_insular_area).
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Compact_of_Free_Association.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Cuba.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Delegate_(United_States_Congress).
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Department_of_the_Interior.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Dependent_territory.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Federal_district.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Federated_States_of_Micronesia.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Guano_Islands_Act.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Guantanamo_Bay_Naval_Base.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Hawaii.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Hawaii_Territory.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Hay–Bunau-Varilla_Treaty.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Income_tax_in_the_United_States.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Incorporated_territories.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Insular_Cases.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink International_territorial_disputes_of_the_United_States.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Island.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Latin.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Medicare_(United_States).
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink National_Wildlife_Refuge.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Non-voting_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Northwest_Territory.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Office_of_Insular_Affairs.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Organic_Act.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Organized_incorporated_territories_of_the_United_States.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Pacific_Islands.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Palau.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Palmyra_Atoll.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Payroll_tax.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Philippines.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Political_divisions_of_the_United_States.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Serranilla_Bank.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Social_Security_(United_States).
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Tax.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Territorial_acquisitions_of_the_United_States.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Territories_of_the_United_States.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Territories_of_the_United_States_on_stamps.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Territory_of_Hawaii.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink The_Atlantic.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink The_Atlantic_Monthly.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink The_Nature_Conservancy.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Treaty_of_Paris_(1898).
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink U.S._state.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Unincorporated_territories.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Unincorporated_territories_of_the_United_States.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink United_Nations_Trust_Territories.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink United_Nations_Trust_Territory.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Department_of_State.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Department_of_the_Interior.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Minor_Outlying_Islands.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink United_States_nationality_law.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink United_States_territorial_acquisitions.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink United_States_territory.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Unorganized_territory.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink Washington,_D.C..
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLink File:US_insular_areas-B.png.
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "(including insular areas)".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "6 outlying areas".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "American territory".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "Commonwealth".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "Insular Pacific".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "Insular Possessions".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "Insular area of the United States of America".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "Insular area of the United States".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "Insular area".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "Insular possessions of the United States".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "Insular".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "Territories and Insular Possessions".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "Territories and possessions".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "U.S. Overseas Territories".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "U.S. territories".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "U.S. territories, excluding Puerto Rico".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "U.S. territory".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "US territories".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "United States Territories".
- Insular_area wikiPageWikiLinkText "United States insular areas".