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As a US citizen, I found this page (from the same site) more interesting:

https://www.madisontrust.com/information-center/who-owns-mos...

(It's the same presentation, scoped to the US)

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That page ignores the federal government, which dwarfs any of these landowners by far

It's not in the diagram, but they mention it at the end:

> Who owns the most land in the U.S.? While not private landowners, the U.S. federal government owns about 640 million acres of land, which is 28% of the land in the country.

Approximately 10% as much as the british royals, apparently.

Considering America started as a much smaller subset of the British commonwealth, I’d say the government is doing pretty well

The number in that chart is misleading, because it counts all public land (both federal and provincial) in Canada. So, yes, there's more public land in the Commonwealth than the United States federal government has, but it's not actually the royal family's.

I could very well be reading this wrong, but it looks like for "only" 15 million you can almost make it into the top 10 with a single purchase of 860,000 acres: https://www.landwatch.com/white-pine-county-nevada-farms-and...

If I only I had an extra $15 million I could spare right now.

Anybody want to get together and purchase 1350 sq. miles of Nevada? (for comparison, about twice the size of Houston). Timeshare? Tech commune? Minerals? (According to this site [1] previous region mining and known minerals are: Au, Ag, Cu, Sb, Be, Coal, Fluorite, Flourspar, Pb, W, Zn; although not much of claims near the actual property.) Low-water surface farming or ranching? Bragging rights?

[1] https://data-ndom.opendata.arcgis.com/pages/criticalminerals

I recall watching a documentary about the Enron collapse and one of the head finance guys (not the CFO but close) left Enron before the collapse and used their winnings to buy up land in Colorado, to the point that they were the largest private landowner in that state.

A lot of these are for timber. Are they equating logging rights to actual ownership or do these companies actually own the land? Normally I wouldn't ask but judging by the other comments in the thread the data on this site seems to suffer from a sloppy definition of ownership.

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