mainland

"Next up, Panda Express opening its first mainland China location," one post read, referring to the US chain that specialises in Chinese food.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

First Hawaiian would retain Tri Counties Bank branding on the mainland, according to the companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Perched at the southern tip of mainland western Europe, it is just nine miles from Morocco, at a point where the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea meet.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

As I watched, it headed out into Buzzards Bay, toward the mainland.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

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

The marsupials of Australia, the finches on the Galápagos, and many species on the Hawaiian Islands are all found nowhere else but on their island, yet display distant relationships to ancestral species on mainlands.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

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