"mainland" is an acceptable word in written English.
It can be used to refer to a large landmass as opposed to an island, or to a primary region within a country or continent. For example, "The mainland of India consists of 28 states."
Mainstream Chinese society holds economic growth and social stability as sacrosanct, and many mainlanders wonder why a city which benefits tremendously from its mainland ties would turn on its most important benefactor.
It also needs a major new interconnector to export that power from Shetland to mainland UK.
Currently, there are 33 known species of guenon monkeys, making them the most species-rich of Africa's mainland primates.
Similar protests on the mainland would be unthinkable – even organisers of seemingly benign demonstrations are subject to extreme intimidation, even prosecution.
Disabled people are left without a life-line to specialist medical care: doctors have asked for a young woman with cerebral palsy to be removed from a camp and sent to the Australian mainland.
pictouisland.com Aisha Mirza, London "The rebels tried to attack us five times," my guide, Joseph, told me as we looked back at the mainland, about 2km across a breezy channel.
Looking across to the mainland, I turned my mind to Sierra Leone's recent troubled past.
Those with children to carry bring still less, having paid €1,200 £8755) to make the journey from the Turkish mainland; 40 to 45 people in unsafe, 15ft plastic dinghies, floors lined with plywood, damp with seawater.
The settlers who came to work in Algeria from the European mainland were known as pieds-noirs – black feet – because, unlike the Muslim population, they wore shoes.
The result was a mid-single-digit decline in Hong Kong spending during the second half of the year, the company said, accompanied by a slowdown in mainland China, but countered by a slight lift in Europe.
In some countries or economies (for instance, Macau was included separately because its education system differs from that of mainland China), questionnaires were also distributed to parents to garner information about their perceptions of their children's schools and career prospects.
