Who Owns the World - The Hidden Facts Behind Landownership
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Who Owns the World is the first ever compilation of landowners and landownership structures in every single one of the world's 197 states and 66 territories. It covers the history of landownership as far as written history will allow and shows the division of landownership in every region of the globe.
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Who Owns the World - The Hidden Facts Behind Landownership
by Cahill, Kevin
The largest landowner on earth is revealed in Mainstream's new book Who Owns the World, published this week.
Queen Elizabeth 11, head of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states and territories, is the legal owner of about 6,600 million acres of land, one sixth of the earth's non ocean surface.
She is the only person on earth who owns whole countries, and who owns countries that are not her own domestic territory. This land ownership is separate from her role as head of state and is different from other monarchies where no such claim is made - Norway, Belgium, Denmark etc.
Value of her land holding. £17,600,000,000,000 (approx)
This makes her the richest individual on earth. However, there is no way to easily value her real estate. There is no current market in the land of entire countries. At a rough estimate of $5,000 an acre, and based on the sale of Alaska to the USA by the Tsar, and of :Louisiana to the USA by France, the Queen's land holding is worth a notional $33,000,000,000,000 (Thirty three trillion dollars or about £17,600,000, 000,000 trillion pounds) Her holding is based on the laws of the countries she owns and her land title is valid in all the countries she owns.. Her main holdings are Canada, the 2nd largest country on earth, with 2,467 million acres, Australia, the 7th largest country on earth with 1,900 million acres, the Papua New Guinea with114 million acres, New Zealand with 66 million acres and the UK with 60 million acres.
Ranking. The next 5 largest landholdings
She is the world's largest landowner by a significant margin. The next largest landowner is the Russian state, with an overall ownership of 4,219 million acres, and a direct ownership comparable with the Queens land holding of 2,447 million acres. The 3rd largest landowner is the Chinese state, which claims all of Chinese land, about 2,365 million acres. The 4th largest landowners on earth is the Federal Government of the United States owns about one third of the land of the USA, 760 million acres. The fifth largest landowner one earth is the King of Saudi Arabia with 553 million acres
The 5 largest personal landholdings on earth.
Queen Elisabeth 11 6,600 million acres
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia 553 million acres
King Bhumibol of Thaland 126 million acres
King Mohammed IV of Morocco 113 million acres
Sultan Quaboos of Oman 76 million acres
The estimate of her landholdings, which have immense political, legal and economic implications appear in Kevin Cahill's book Who Owns the World, published by Mainstream on Nov 2nd.
The book examines land ownership in each one of the world's 197 states or countries and 66 major territories, with a page for each country and territory.
(Part 2) It is the first such survey of landownership ever attempted and includes estimates of the land owned by the Papacy, the Islamic Mosque trusts and the Buddhist and Hindu religions (Ch 5)
It examines the land holdings of the 26 largest landholders on earth (Ch 3) and of how 60% of Europe is owned by the aristocracy, who also get 60% of the EU annual agricultural subsidy of Euros 28,000 million. (Total subsidy $48,000 million) (Ch 4)
Packed with revelatory information, the book:
*identifies the person who owns the largest proportion of the world's land and documents that person's landholdings;
*provides details of the next 25 top landowners;
*reveals that aristocratic families who own over 60 per cent of Europe's land mass and receive most of the EC's agricultural subsidy allowance;
*documents the vast landholdings of the four largest religious groups: the Catholic Church and the other Christian churches, the Islamic trusts, and the temple possessions of the Hindus and Buddhists;
*details the landownership structure of all the countries of the British Commonwealth;
*contains a complete survey of the historic record of landownership, starting in Mesopotamia/Iraq in 8000 BC;
*lists many of the world's great Domesdays, going back to the earliest, in Ptolemaic Egypt;
*includes an analysis of the legal structures that have reduced 85 per cent of the Earth's population to serfdom.
This is a breathtaking tome of huge political, economic and social importance. It will revolutionise our understanding of our planet, its history and its land.
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