Mainland
Mainland is usually the
continental part of a region, as opposed to the
islands nearby. Sometimes the residents are called "the
Mainlanders". As a result of the usually larger area of mainland, there are significantly more mainlanders than islanders, and mainlander culture and politics sometimes threaten to dominate those of the islands.
Prominent Mainlands include:
Occasionally two approximately equal sized islands may interchangely refer to each other as the Mainland, as in the
North Island and
South Island of
New Zealand.