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- Insular_area abstract "An insular area is a United States territory that is neither a part of one of the 50 U.S. states nor the District of Columbia, the federal district of the U.S. 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.Because those insular areas that are inhabited are unincorporated territories, their native-born inhabitants are not constitutionally entitled to United States citizenship under the Citizenship Clause.[citation needed] However, Congress has extended citizenship rights 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, but not U.S. citizens; they are free to move around and seek employment within the whole United States without immigration restrictions but cannot vote or hold office outside of American Samoa.[citation needed]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.[citation needed]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 wikiPageRevisionID "602977490".
- Insular_area hasPhotoCollection Insular_area.
- Insular_area subject Category:Administrative_divisions.
- Insular_area subject Category:Insular_areas_of_the_United_States.
- Insular_area subject Category:Subdivisions_of_the_United_States.
- Insular_area point "18.25 -66.5".
- Insular_area type AdministrativeDistrict108491826.
- Insular_area type AdministrativeDivisions.
- Insular_area type Area108497294.
- Insular_area type District108552138.
- Insular_area type GeographicalArea108574314.
- Insular_area type InsularAreasOfTheUnitedStates.
- Insular_area type Location100027167.
- Insular_area type Object100002684.
- Insular_area type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Insular_area type Region108630985.
- Insular_area type Subdivision108674251.
- Insular_area type SubdivisionsOfTheUnitedStates.
- Insular_area type Tract108673395.
- Insular_area type YagoGeoEntity.
- Insular_area type YagoLegalActorGeo.
- Insular_area type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Insular_area type SpatialThing.
- Insular_area comment "An insular area is a United States territory that is neither a part of one of the 50 U.S. states nor the District of Columbia, the federal district of the U.S. 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.".
- Insular_area label "Aree insulari degli Stati Uniti d'America".
- Insular_area label "Außengebiete der Vereinigten Staaten".
- Insular_area label "Eilandgebied (Verenigde Staten)".
- Insular_area label "Insular area".
- Insular_area label "Terytoria zależne Stanów Zjednoczonych".
- Insular_area label "Zone insulaire des États-Unis".
- Insular_area label "Área insular de Estados Unidos".
- Insular_area label "Área insular dos Estados Unidos".
- Insular_area label "Островные территории США".
- Insular_area label "島嶼地區".
- Insular_area sameAs Außengebiete_der_Vereinigten_Staaten.
- Insular_area sameAs Área_insular_de_Estados_Unidos.
- Insular_area sameAs Zone_insulaire_des_États-Unis.
- Insular_area sameAs Daerah_insuler.
- Insular_area sameAs Aree_insulari_degli_Stati_Uniti_d'America.
- Insular_area sameAs Eilandgebied_(Verenigde_Staten).
- Insular_area sameAs Terytoria_zależne_Stanów_Zjednoczonych.
- Insular_area sameAs Área_insular_dos_Estados_Unidos.
- Insular_area sameAs m.02jxpp.
- Insular_area sameAs Q462778.
- Insular_area sameAs Q462778.
- Insular_area sameAs Insular_area.
- Insular_area lat "18.25".
- Insular_area long "-66.5".
- Insular_area wasDerivedFrom Insular_area?oldid=602977490.
- Insular_area depiction US_insular_areas-B.png.
- Insular_area isPrimaryTopicOf Insular_area.