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Also in June, China barred Teodoro, Manila's defence secretary, and his immediate family from entering mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Momenta, which is based in Suzhou, Jiangsu in mainland China, joins the growing list of autonomous-driving companies tapping Hong Kong’s equity market for capital and exposure to Asian investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

The wolves were also smaller than typical wolves living on the mainland.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

In Russia's Kaliningrad exclave, there were delays at the airport taking passengers to mainland Russia due to the strikes, according to an AFP reporter there.

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

Later, it was the vaccine of the Reverend Hall, fetched from the mainland, that guarded the rest of the Ojibwa who had been exposed and who survived the smallpox of 1847.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

Zoologists provide evidence that fewer animal species live on islands than on nearby mainlands.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

The marsupials of Australia, the finches on the Galápagos, and many species on the Hawaiian Islands are all unique to their one point of origin, yet they display distant relationships to ancestral species on mainlands.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

The Berlin-based ethnographer Alexa Clay, who studied change agents in her book, “The Misfit Economy,” talks about mainlands, islands and peninsulas.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016

Almost all fishing is now carried out at the surface or on the bottoms of the continental shelves that jut from the world's mainlands.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the usual experience of archaeologists, inventions are supposed to flow from mainlands to islands, and small peripheral societies aren’t supposed to contribute revolutionary advances to the rest of the world.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond