1. King Charles III and the British Royal FamilyLocations: United Kingdom, Canada
Acres owned: 6.6 billion
The British Royal family owns land equivalent to one-sixth of the surface of the earth. Locations include London, rural Britain and more than 90% of the land in Canada.
Who Owns the Most Land in the World?
The largest landowner in the world currently is King Charles III of England. How much land does the Royal Family own? He and the British Royal Family own more than 6,600,000,000 acres of land around the world. They technically own many territories around the globe, amounting to 1/6 of the surface of the planet. The family owns land in the United Kingdom, Canada, and beyond.
Second on the list is the Catholic Church. Their 177 million acres are located throughout the world and include churches, schools, and farms. They also own many religious landmarks like the Scala Sancta and the Apostolic Palace as well as farmland.
In third are the Inuit people of Nunavut in Canada. According to the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act of 1993, the government of Canada and the government of the Northwest Territories granted the Inuit people ownership of a separate territory called Nunavut, which is about 87 million acres in size. It was (and still is) the largest land claim settlement in the history of Canada.
The fourth entry on the list is Gina Rinehart, who is the richest person in Australia. She is a mining magnate who has more than $30 billion. She owns 23 million acres of land consisting mainly of forests and cattle farms. Rinehart made her fortune on iron ore and is the daughter of iron-ore explorer Lang Hancock.
Ranking fifth are the Inuvialuit people of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in Canada, with more than 22 million acres. The Inuvialuit Settlement Region (sometimes abbreviated as ISR) was designated by the government of Canada in 1984 and includes several areas of land, including the northern portion of Yukon and the northwest portion of the Northwest Territories.
The largest farm in the world is Mudanjiang City Mega Farm, which is located in Heilongjiang, China, and ranks sixth on the list. At more than 22 million acres, the massive farm has more than 100,000 dairy cows and produces 800 million liters of milk every year.
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