In today's video, we'll be sharing with you the world’s largest land owners in the world.
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1.Gina Reinhart Gina owns 12 million hectares of land in Australia,
making her the largest individual landowner in the world.
She was born in Hancock, Australia in 1954.
She chairs a mineral exploration and extraction company which she inherited from her father
when he died in 1992.
Forbes estimates her net worth in 2019 at $14.8 billion dollars, as listed in Australia’s
50 richest people.
Gina Rinehart owns extensive tracts of land across the country of Australia.
In recent years she increased her holdings significantly by acquiring high profile cattle
stations.
The cattle stations cover huge pieces of land ideal for cattle rearing.
In the year 2016, she owned more than 1.5 per cent of the total land in Australia, which
is a huge stake to be owned by one person.
The land is mainly agricultural and covers a number of states in Australia, including
the Northern territory.
2.
Joe Lewis He is a British tycoon, and businessman who
is a major shareholder of the Australian Agricultural Company, in the Northern Territory and Queensland
areas of Australia, that runs and operates 7 million hectares of land.
He was born in 1937, and he lives in New Province in the Bahamas.
He has a net worth of 4.3 Billion pounds.
He was born in a Jewish family and supported the family business in his early days, which
he eventually expanded and later sold and made his fortune.
His company, Tavistock Group, owns over 200 companies and operates in 15 countries.
He has properties in Orlando USA, and Argentina, among others.
3.
Zhongding Dairy Farming & Sevemy Bur shareholders The farm known as the Nundanjiang City Mega
Farm is the world’s largest farm and is jointly owned by China’s Zhongding Dairy
and Russia’s Severny Bur.
The farm covers 9.1 million hectares and is almost the size of Portugal.
The farm has a total population of about 100,000 cows which are capable of producing 800,000
litres of milk
4.
North Australian Pastoral Company This company owns 6.1 million hectares of
land.
It is one of the largest cattle companies in Australia.
The expansive land covers Queensland and parts of the Northern Territory as well as parts
of Alexandria.
5.
The MacLachlan family This Australian family business, was started
in 1888 by H.E.
MacLahian.The enterprise is wholly owned by the family of the founder, and they have to
their disposal, 4.9 million hectares.
They utilize the land in keeping sheep which are used for the production of wool.
This company is one of the largest suppliers of wool in Australia and its environs.
Wool is a key material in the manufacture of clothing of various types in addition to
other products.
6.
King Salman of Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia which has a GDP of USD 618 billion,
is one of the richest Arab countries that produce huge amounts of oil.
King Salman of Saudi Arabia, who is a real Monarch has total control of more than 830,000
miles of vast oil deposits in this Arab kingdom.
The oil mined in these land is not only used locally but exported to many countries in
the world, considering that Sudi Arabia is one of the major oil producing countries.
Part of the land is also being used for agriculture where the King has established many sectors
of agriculture through the Sustainable Rural Agriculture Development Program, which is
focussed on small scall production.
7.King Mohammed VI of Morocco: Morocco for decades has been a key trading
point between Africa and Europe.
The country, through trade has managed to retain a healthy economy for centuries.
This monarchy dates back to 1036, and multiple generations have sat on the throne since then.
The King owns shares in a company named Les Domains, whose annual production is approximately
170,000 tonnes.
This brings an earning or income of 175 million dollars.
Mohammed’s net worth is estimated at two billion dollars, aside from the massive land,
he also owns several companies.
8.King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand Thailand as a whole sits on 128 million acres
of land which the King rules over.
In his own capacity he has taken all properties which had been owned by the Royal family.
These properties include large tracts of land mainly in Bangkok.
The King is passionate about growing the agriculture sector which he feels will impact positively
on the Thai economy.
King Maha owns about 6,560 hectares of land, some of which is in real estate and the rest
is agricultural land.
9.
Ted Turner He is a well-known entrepreneur who has founded
several companies including the Turner Broadcasting System.
His company is the one that started CNN and several other broadcasting companies before
he sold it.
Just like most wealthy people, he owns a lot of land.
Turner is one of the largest landowners in the USA and other countries too.
He owns a total of two million acres.
In Argentina he owns about eleven thousand acres.
His land is so large that a portion of it is used publicly as hunting grounds.
10 James, Arthur and John Irving The three brothers were born and raised in
Canada, and owns approximately 3.6 million acres of land held in Maine, New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia make the Irvings the largest landowners in those states and provinces.
As heirs to the J.D. Irving Group of Companies fortune, the three Canadian brothers also
inherited thousands of square miles of forest land that the company uses as paper and pulp
materials in one part of their very diversified business portfolio.
11.
King Mswati of Swaziland Swaziland is one of the most beautiful places
on earth, tucked in the Southern part of Africa.
The country is still led through a monarchy system where the kings and queens are passed
on through families and generations.
King Mswati the third, came into power in 1986 at the age of only eighteen.
As the king, he gets to own the whole country as the sole landowner.
See, the country doesn’t issue title deeds to its residents so everything is owned by
the government, King Mswati the third runs the government.
The state is about one million acres in size.
12.
Emir of Kuwait He is one more person who owns almost a whole
country.
Emir owns about four million of the total seven million acres that make up the whole
country of Kuwait.
Did he buy all this?
The answer is no.
Apparently, just like in Swaziland, land and property is inherited from generation to generation.
He is the inheritor to the throne, and with that position comes a ton of benefits including
land.
The rest of the land that he doesn’t own is owned by the US military, and it serves
as the largest American base in the area.
What would you do with four million acres to your name?
13.
King Letsie of Lesotho Ok, now I see a trend here.
Most of these people are either kings, or inheritors to a throne.
King Letsie is not only one of the largest landowners in the world, but also one of the
richest.
He owns more than eleven thousand square miles of land, and all the diamond mines in his
country.
King Letsie inherited the throne and the legal title over the country’s land after his
father passed away.
14.
King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan What?
Apart from having one of the longest and complicated names, he also owns massive acreage of land.
This king, like the rest, owns the whole kingdom.
In total, he has fifteen thousand lush and unique lands in the kingdom of Bhutan.
In case you are wondering, Bhutan is in the continent of Asia.
He has owned this property since 2008, when he got into power.
15.
King Abdullah II of Jordan This king inherited his seat a decade ago,
and with access to the throne came thirty-five thousand square miles.
This Hashemite kingdom is one of the few partners of the world Trade Organisation and The Arab
League.
His father, who was a popular king, and was also an extra on Star Trek; The Next Generation,
established the kingdom to be one of the most loyal allies of the US.
16.
King Gyanendra of Nepal We have seen a lot of kings who own massive
hectares of land, but none is like King Gyanedra.
Along with owning fifty thousand miles of the land that makes up Nepal, he also owns
the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest.
Now I bet you didn't know that.
17.
Sultan Qaboos of Oman Qaboos owns the whole of Oman, which includes
all the ports on the Coast of Sur, one of the main trade centres in the whole region.
He is the ruler of the country and the military head.
But, the great part about his leadership is he is fairly westernised, compared to the
neighboring countries, allowing women to hold positions in his cabinet.
18.
King Bhumibhol of Thailand Of all the kings on this list, he has to own
the most property.
King Bhumibhol owns the whole of Thailand, which is about one hundred and twenty million
acres.
He has been in power since 1950, when his country was known as Siam.
He has been the longest-serving monarch in the whole of Asia.
He is so popular in Thailand, that a rumour about the decline in his health led to a serious
shock in the state’s financial markets back in 2009.
19.
Pope Benedict The 110 acres of the Holy city which includes
the Vatican City is just but a small part of what is owned by the catholic Church.
In total, the church owns about two hundred million acres across the world.
This property has been acquired over the past two centuries.
20.
Queen Elizabeth II Now for the largest landowner in the entire
world.
The current England queen, by right of her throne, owns almost seven billion acres of
land in Canada, Australia, Northern Ireland, Great Britain, and Africa.
Not forgetting the Falkland Islands.
The queen, who is currently the third longest serving monarch, retains the title over all
the British Commonwealth.
She is the largest landowner, and the only other person who comes close to her is King
Abdullah, with a mere 546 million acres which is only 12% of what her majesty owns.
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