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The Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) is a unit of the United States Department of the Interior that oversees federal administration of several United States insular areas.It is the successor to the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department, which administered certain territories from 1902 to 1939, and the Office of Territorial Affairs (formerly the Division of Territories and Island ...
In the law of the United States, an insular area is a U.S.-associated jurisdiction that is not part of a U.S. state or the District of Columbia.This includes fourteen U.S. territories administered under U.S. sovereignty, as well as three sovereign states each with a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
Government of the United States Virgin Islands (6 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Government of insular areas of the United States" This category contains only the following page.
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
Pages in category "Insular areas of the United States" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 1902, it became the Bureau of Insular Affairs. [2] As a result of the Insular Cases, the U.S. Attorney General issued an opinion in 1915 stating that the insular areas were unincorporated territories of the United States. In 1939, the bureau was replaced by the Division of Territories and Island Possessions in the Department of the Interior. [1]
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