The anime was also broadcast in the Arab World ( as " مغامرات نيلز " Nils ' Adventures ), Canada ( in French ), France, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Iran, Iceland ( as " Nilli Hólmgeirsson ") Belgium, Greece ( as " Το θαυμαστό ταξίδι του Νίλς Χόλγκερσον "-" The wondrous journey of Nils Holgersson "), The Netherlands, Poland ( as " Nils and the wild geese "), Portugal, Romania, Spain, Slovenia ( as " Nils Holgerson " with one s ), Hungary ( as " Nils Holgersson csodálatos utazása a vadludakkal "), Czech Republic ( as " Nils Holgersson "), Israel, Turkey ( as " Uçan Kaz " (" The Flying Goose ")), Italy, Hong Kong ( dubbed into Cantonese ), Mainland China, South Africa ( Translated to Afrikaans as " Die wonderlike avonture van Niels Holgerson "), and Albania, but in some countries it was cut to allow for commercials.

with supermarkets and hypermarkets in Mainland Spain, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.

** Taiwan: Erya Press, 1997 ; Mainland China: Sichuan Literary Press, 1999 ( Relaunched by Lijiang Press 2001, Relaunched by Zhishi Press, 2003 ); Meulenhoff, Holland, 1998 ; Bloomsbury, UK, 1998 ; Mondadori, Italy, 1998 ; Allen & Unwin, Australia, 1998 ; Grove / Atlantic, US 1999 ; Norstedts, Sweden, 1999 ; Tiden Norsk, Norway, 1999 ; De Sueil, France, 1999 ; Kinneret, Israel, 2001 ; Politik Forlag, Denmark, 2001 ; Otava, Finland, 2001 ; Govostis, Greece, 2002 ; Hangilsa, South Korea ; Shuei-Sha, Japan ; Bertelsmann Media, Poland ; Aufbau, Germany ; Planeta, Spain

** Taiwan, Erya Press, 1999 ; Mainland China, Huashan Press, 2001 ( Relaunched by Spring Breeze Press, 2003 ); Meulenhoff, Holland, 2000 ; Norstedts, Sweden 2001 ; Marion Boyars, UK & US, 2002 ( Paperback bought by Transworld ); De Seuil, France, 2003 ; Hangilsa, South Korea ; Aufbau, Germany, 2004 ; Metaichimo, Greece ; Ganzanti Libri, Italy ; Metaixmio, Greece ; Grup 62, Spain ; Pluto, Slovenia ; Kineret, Israel ; JLX Publishers, Hungary ; Kasander Film Company signed Film Option, December 2003

* Mainland Argentina, as opposed to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Tierra del Fuego ;

* Mainland Australia, as opposed to Tasmania.

* British Mainland ( i. e. the island of Great Britain ), as opposed to the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland ( although when used to differentiate Britain from Ireland it can be considered an offensive usage ) or any other British island.

* Mainland Canada, as opposed to Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Cape Breton Island or Vancouver Island ;

* Mainland China ( including the island of Hainan ), as opposed to the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), and the politically separate island of Taiwan and other small islands administered by the Republic of China ( ROC );

* Mainland Chile, as opposed to insular Chile ( Easter Island, Sala y Gómez, Desventuradas Islands and Juan Fernández Islands ).

* Mainland Denmark, as opposed to the Faroe Islands and Greenland ;

* Mainland Ecuador, as opposed to the Galapagos Islands ;

* Mainland Equatorial Guinea, usually called Río Muni, the part which is on the African continent, as opposed to the offshore islands ;

* Mainland Estonia, as opposed to Saaremaa, Hiiumaa and other Western Estonian islands ;

* Mainland Finland, as opposed to Åland Islands ;

* Mainland France ( Le Continent ), as opposed to Corsica ; in relation to its Overseas Departments and Territories, the term Metropolitan France ( France Métropolitaine ) is more commonly used ;

* Mainland Greece ( including and the island of Euboia ), as opposed to the Greek Islands.

* Mainland Ireland as opposed to its offshore islands.

* Mainland Italy, as opposed to Sardinia, Sicily, and other minor islands.

* Mainland Japan and Honshū, as opposed to the rest of the Japanese islands ( see also Home Islands );

* Mainland Korea as opposed to Jeju and Ulleung Islands

* Mainland Malaysia as opposed to Sabah, Sarawak and its other smaller islands such as Penang and Langkawi

* Mainland Netherlands as opposed to Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba.

* Mainland Portugal, or Continental Portugal ( Portugal Continental ), as opposed to Azores and Madeira Islands.

* Mainland Scotland as opposed to its many offshore islands including the Western Isles and Orkney or Shetland.

* Mainland United States, as opposed to the state of Hawaii and overseas territories.

* Mainland North America as opposed to Mainland United States includes the parts of the largest Island of North America that includes the Mainland of Canada, The United States and Mexico.

Shetland is a National Scenic Area, although unusually this single designated area is made up of a number of discrete locations: Fair Isle, Foula, South West Mainland ( including the Scalloway Islands ), Muckle Roe, Esha Ness, Fethaland and Herma Ness.

Inter-Island flights are available from the Shetland Mainland to most of the inhabited islands including those from Tingwall Airport west of Lerwick, operated by Directflight Ltd., in partnership with Shetland Islands Council.

** Mainland: Águila Islet, Diego Ramírez Islands

Whatcom County also has land borders with two administrative units of British Columbia, Canada, which together comprise the region known as the Lower Mainland, and also a water border with the Gulf Islands, which form Electoral Area G of the Capital Regional District.

After the People's Republic of China took control of Mainland China in 1949, the Republic of China government based in Taiwan continued to control the Dachen Islands off the coast of Zhejiang until 1955, even establishing a rival Zhejiang provincial government there, creating a situation similar to Fujian province today.

* Shetland Islands ( Mainland )

Scapa Flow ( Old Norse: Skalpaflói —" bay of the long isthmus ") is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy.

According to that the territories comprise the mainland area north of the Boundary Street of Kowloon Peninsula and south of the Sham Chun River which is the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China, as well as over 200 outlying Islands including Lantau Island, Lamma Island, Cheung Chau, and Peng Chau in the territory of Hong Kong.

Mainland New Zealand more commonly refers to the North and South Island combined, as opposed to offshore islands such as Stewart Island, Waiheke Island, Great Barrier Island, and the Chatham Islands

* The largest islands of the Orkney and Shetland Islands ; see Mainland, Orkney and Mainland, Shetland.

Lerwick is the capital and main port of the Shetland Islands, Scotland, located more than 100 miles ( 160 km ) off the north coast of mainland Scotland on the east coast of the Shetland Mainland.

The island is administratively part of Shetland and lies south-west of Sumburgh Head on the Mainland of Shetland and north-east of North Ronaldsay, Orkney.

Health system services and governance in the Lower Mainland are provided by Vancouver Coastal Health, serving Vancouver, Richmond and the North Shore, and the mainland coast as far north as the Central Coast region, and Fraser Health, which serves the area of the Lower Mainland east of Vancouver and Richmond.

While this classification is based on the differences between the North Germanic languages at the time they split, their present-day characteristics justify another classification, dividing them into an Insular Scandinavian and Mainland Scandinavian language groups, based on mutual intelligibility.

Mainland Portugal's literacy rate by the 1940s and early 1950s was low for North American and Western European standards at the time.

Falun Gong's growth outside China largely corresponded to the migration of students from Mainland China to the West in the early-to mid-1990s, and in North America and Europe, the practice was taught mainly on university campuses.

Fleet headquarters is at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, with large secondary facilities at North Island, San Diego Bay on the Mainland.

It was deemed necessary around this point in time to give up territory on the Lower Mainland to keep Vancouver Island part of British North America.

For the most part, other Lower Mainland residents rarely distinguish between the District and the City, referring to both collectively as " North Vancouver ".

Service to New Zealand resumed in 1985 along with non-stop flights from Vancouver to Hong Kong, and in 1986 CP Air became the first North American airline to have a non-stop flight between North America and Mainland China with a weekly flight to Shanghai.

Sullom Voe is an inlet between North Mainland and Northmavine on Shetland in Scotland.

* The North Mainland – in particular the large Northmavine peninsula, connected to Mainland by a narrow isthmus at Mavis Grind – is wild, with much moorland and coastal cliffs.

The North Mainland contains Sullom Voe, whose oil terminal is an important source of employment for the islanders.

The cliffs of Eshaness, North Mainland

One of the North Isles, Eday is about from the Orkney Mainland.