"What connects King Charles III, Pope and Canadian Inuits?"

The British royal family, led by the recently crowned King Charles III, has 6.6 billion acres of land worldwide.

• This is more than 37 times more than in the case of the planet runner-up, the Catholic Church.
• Most of the 25 largest private landowners are Australian cattle farms, but they are overtaken by Inuits from Canada.

• • Old McDonald had a farm. The company managed by its descendants is now the 14th largest private landowner in the world. Keep your ee-i-ee-i-o's: This is not a farmer celebrated for rhymes. This apocryphal MacDonald was most likely included in a conventional folk song in the early 20th century in America. These McDonalds (without interstital -a-) have grown land in Australia since 1827, erstwhile the first cattle were sent to Tasmania.

    Cattle Empire

    In 1947, Jim McDonald bought Brightlands Station, an extended ranch in Queensland. Since then, the household has continued to grow the land close to "protect themselves from drought" its cattle breeding.

  • After 7 generations and 190 years, McDonald's household estate, now acting as MDH Proprietary Limited, has 150,000 head of cattle in 14 properties in a vast Australian Outback. It is 1 of the largest cattle breeding in the country. In fact, its full area of 8.3 million acres (12,972 square miles or 33,597 sq mi) makes it about the same size as Maryland or Belgium.

    

    Cattle farming, which is as large as the full sovereign nation, is not uncommon in Australia, where there are any of the world's largest agricultural enterprises - both in terms of land and turnover. MDH may be the 14th largest landowner in the world, but in Australia itself a conglomerate known previously as McDonald's farm is inactive smaller than 7 another mega-farms and 1 mega-mine. Of the 25 largest landowners in the world, 16 are in their entirety and 2 more in part in Australia.

    That's what he says New Madison Trust report, which lists the largest private landowners in the world.

    Also the majority owner of Tottenham Hotspur

    As the review of this study shows, MDH does not hold a candle for the oldest and largest Australian agricultural conglomerate. Focused on beef, like MDH, the Australian Agricultural Company (AA Co) manages 17.3 million acres (about 27,000 square miles or 70,000 sq mi), accounting for about 1% of the full land weight of Australia. This is much more than West Virginia and almost precisely as much as the Republic of Ireland.

  • AA Co, the 7th largest private landowner in the world, is now a majority shareholder of British billionaire Joe Lewis, who increased its share of the company to over 50% in September 2022, Lewis, which is 39. the richest individual in Britain, is besides the majority owner of Tottenham Hotspur football club.

    Mr. Lewis, however, cannot claim to own the largest farm in the world. This award goes to Mudanjiang City Mega Farm in northwestern China, close the border with Russia. Its 22.2 million acres (about 35 750 square miles or 80,000 square kilometers) means it is somewhat larger than Maine and almost as large as Austria.

    

    The farm has about 100,000 dairy herds, or 50 times more than the largest European dairy farmers. It was established in 2015 to service the Russian market, after imposing EU sanctions on Russia in connection with the annexation of Crimea. The Russians should be fine for at least milk: the farm produces 800 million litres a year.

    The largest company in Australia

    Yet Mr. Lewis is not the largest private landowner in Australia. This award goes to mining magnate Gina Rinehart, who owns large parts of both his own country and the USA.

  • In 1992, Rinehart inherited Hancock Prospecting from her father and managed to turn a bankrupt mining company into a thriving business that became the largest company in Australia and 1 of the largest mining companies in the world. Rinehart herself is the richest individual in Australia, and in 2012 she was the richest female in the planet (now only the 9th richest, net worth $23.5 billion). In total, it has almost 24 million acres of land (37 450 square miles, or about 97,000 sq mi). It's a bigger area than Indiana or Portugal.

    Earth, water and ice

    However, this is far from the land jointly owned by the Inuits of Nunavut, Canada's largest and northernmost territory. Accordingly, Nunavut means "Our Earth" in Inuktitut, Inuit indigenous language. The area was officially separated from the Northwest Territories in 1999, making it besides the latest administrative unit of the highest level in Canada.

    A fewer years earlier, the Canadian government granted a large condition of the territory to residents under a 1993 Nunavut land claim agreement. It amounted to 87.5 million acres (about 136,720 square miles or 354,000 sq mi), which is about half the size of fresh Mexico and Montana or about 1 German. That makes them the 3rd largest private landowners in the world.

    Another Inuit area ranks 5th in the world. It is land jointly owned by the indigenous population in the settlement region of Inuvialuit (ISR) in the northern part of Yukon and in the Northwest Territories. On 22.5 million acres (35 150 square miles or 91,000 square kilometers), these lands are somewhat larger than this Chinese mega-farm.

    ISR is 1 of 4 Eskimo regions of Canada. Together with Nunavut, Nunatsiavut (in Labrador) and Nunavik (in Quebec) creates the Inuit homeland, collectively known as the Inuit Nunangat ("earth, water, and Inuit ice").

    

    Catholic Empire

    The Pope is the ruler of the smallest state in the world, Vatican. But the Catholic Church, which he leads, is not only the largest single spiritual religion on Earth (with about 1.3 billion members), but besides the second largest private landowner in the world, thanks to the many churches, monasteries, abbeys, schools and another types of property he owns throughout the map. It is estimated that the church has around 177 million acres of land per Worldwide (about 277,000 square miles or 716,000 sq mi). That's more than Texas and twice as much as Germany.

    British Empire – but mostly only by name

    However, even this is simply a tiny beer compared to the world's largest private landowner, whose shares are more than 37 times larger than those of the Catholic Church. This is the British royal family, headed by King Charles III. Windsors have over 6.6 billion acres worldwide. This is 10.3 million square miles (26.7 million square kilometres), which is over 3 times more than in Brazil. It accounts for over 1 sixth of the planet's land surface. (29% of the Earth's surface area is dry land, which is about 36 billion acres, 57 million square miles or 146 million square kilometres).

  • Is that even possible? Did the researchers misplace the decimal comma?

    Well, this number is common repeated, but aside from whether it is the correct number, the question of ownership is somewhat abstract. As sovereigns of large Britain and Northern Ireland and respective another Commonwealth countries (including Canada, Australia and fresh Zealand to name the largest), King Charles "technically" owns the kingdoms over which he governs, wholly or partially. In general, this concept of property is so passé and impossible that it is simply symbolic.

    

    For example, about 89% of Canada is "the crown earth". More specifically, 41% are national crown lands, and 48% are provincial crown lands. However, this is considered public land, separate from the monarch's private estate. Given these figures, there is surely any overlap of Canadian territories counted as "held" by King Charles, and those under Inuit control.

    But there's besides something called Crown Estate, a real property portfolio in Britain which is theoretically owned by a British monarch, but is not part of his private estate. It is besides not government property, although most of the gross goes to the British state treasury. The King receives 25% of the Crown Estate's yearly surplus as a "swingen grant", although this temporarily includes 10% specially intended for the renovation of Buckingham Palace. The current subsidy is about £86 (109) million a year.

    The Crown property includes properties from charmingly secret to commercial bland:

    • About 55% of the UK coast (beach), but not in Orkad and Shetland.
    • Practically the full territorial seabed of large Britain (from the average low water to the border of 12 nautical miles).
    • 241 commercial, residential and office properties in central London, including Apple store on Regent Street.
    • Full ownership of Worcester buying Centre and 50% stake in Oxford and Exeter buying malls. Plus a twelve another stores and stores.

    In addition, through the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of Cornwall, the royal household has direct control of immense properties (and their incomes) throughout agrarian England and Wales, but besides (through the Duchy of Lancaster) over the prestigious Savoy Hotel in London.

    Even if King Charles may not own one-sixth dry land of the planet, with Buckingham Palace in central London and Windsor Castle right next door, as well as various another residences across the UK, he has a large choice, where to put the hat At the end of the day.

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  • source:https://bigthink.com/