The land is a sought-after commodity and crucial to farmers. Although there are numerous actors beyond the agricultural industry for whom land is significant, the list of largest landowners includes quite a few farmers. You will be surprised to check out the list and the amount of land that they own.
So here is everything that you need to know about.
Gina Rineheart
According to figures collated by Guardian Australia, mining billionaire Gina Rinehart is Australia’s largest landowner, owning more than 9.2 million hectares, or 1.2 % of the country’s total area.
When the land she controls through three distinct corporations is merged, Rinehart leaps to the top of the list. The region she controls is around 40% larger than the company that ranks first on a standalone basis, the Australian Agricultural Co., which is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
What kind of land does she own?
Rinehart’s massive property holding is poised to shrink after she put eight cattle ranches up for sale in March, totaling 1.9 million hectares. The properties, which together operate 108,000 cattle, are spread over WA’s Kimberley area and the top of the Northern Territory.
Joe Lewis
Joe Lewis is the owner of the Tavistock Group, which has over 200 assets in 13 countries. Lewis owns Tottenham Hotspur of the London Premier League and has an interest in Mitchells & Butlers of the United Kingdom through Tavistock.
He also owns luxury club resorts, restaurants, hotels, and an Australian agriculture company, among other things.
Lewis continues to broaden his ambition for his Lake Nona development in Orlando, which is one of the country’s fastest-growing areas. He has a large art collection that includes works by Picasso, Matisse, Freud, and Bacon, among others.
Family MacLachlan
All of this land is owned by the Jumbuck Pastoral Company, which was formed in 1888 by patriarch HP MacLachlan. It is an Australian farming company that is also the country’s largest wool provider. The corporation holds 11 assets totaling more than five million hectares of land.
In addition, the corporation has cattle and sheep stations in South and Western Australia, as well as in the Northern Territory.
King Abdullah Of Saudi Arab
Absolute royal rule over the oil-rich Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s 830,000 square miles and a total GDP of $618 billion for the previous year.
Abdullah, the heir to King Fahd’s throne, has maintained his father’s diplomatic dance with the United States over Saudi oil rights. Oil prices have been thrown into upheaval as a result of his recent negotiations with a domestic insurrection.
Queen Elizabeth 2
There are 6.6 billion acres of land in the world, including the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, and a few other places. Then there’s the crucial Falkland Islands.
Elizabeth II, England’s third (and soon to be second) longest-serving monarch, retains royal title over the British Commonwealth and, as a result, manages to keep her face on money all over the world.
With 6.6 billion acres under her control, Elizabeth II is by far the world’s largest landowner, with the closest runner-up (King Abdullah) controlling only 547 million acres, or about 12% of Her Majesty, The Queen’s territory.
King Mohammed VI of Morocco
Morocco’s 175.6 million acres, traditionally a vital crossroads for trade between Europe and Africa, has maintained a relatively stable economy during the turbulent twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
In the history of a kingdom that stretches back to 1036, Mohammed is the first great proponent of democracy. Because of his ownership of Moroccan estates and his inherited money, his total worth is estimated to be approximately $2 billion.
King Bhumibol of Thailand
Thailand’s total land area is around 128 million acres, including its tourist-friendly coastline and economically prosperous towns.
Bhumibol has been King of Thailand since 1950, 11 years after the country was renamed Thailand from Siam.
He is Asia’s longest-serving monarch, and he is so well-liked in Thailand that rumors of his health deterioration shocked the country’s financial markets in 2009.
Oman’s Sultan Qaboos
Oman is a largely desert country that includes the ports along the Sur Coast, which are an important point of entry for trade in the region. Also, check out that amazing chair. Qaboos is the Sultan of Oman and the commander-in-chief of the country’s military.
In comparison to his neighbors, he is a fairly Westernized leader.
King Gyanendra of Nepal
Nepal is made up of 57,000 miles, thus he technically owns Mount Everest as well. Despite Nepal’s transition to the Maoist Republic in the 1990s, the royal family retains titular ownership of the entire country. Gyanendra is the nominal head of state, however, he is antagonistic to the socialist government.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II
Jordan’s Hashemite Kingdom covers 35,637 square kilometers and is one of the few Arab League and World Trade Organization members.
One of the United States’ most faithful allies in the region, and a former extra on Star Trek: The Next Generation, is the heir to his father, the enormously popular King Hussein, and is currently confronting his own realities of the upheavals throughout the Middle East.
Irving, James, Arthur, and John
The Irvings are the greatest landowners in Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, with over 3.6 million acres in each state and province.
The three Canadian brothers inherited thousands of square miles of forest property as heirs to the J.D. Irving Group of Companies fortune, which the corporation employs as paper and pulp materials in one portion of their very broad business portfolio.
Ted Turner
Ted Turner owns almost 2 million acres. He owns thousands of square miles of hunting land in Georgia and Montana in the United States. He also owns over 11,000 acres of land in Argentina’s Patagonia region.
Turner built the Turner Broadcasting System, which spawned CNN and several other networks before being sold to Time Warner for yet another Turner fortune. Turner is an avid outdoorsman who has purchased land to pursue his hobbies of fishing and hunting.