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谁是世界最大地主?

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本期英国杂志《新政客》封面,Kevin Cahill将会给我们展现谁是全世界最大的地主—从英国的伊丽莎白女王到澳大利亚的基德曼家族,从沙特的阿卜杜拉国王到美国的媒体巨头特纳。我们目前有两种封建制国家:世袭的,通常都有君主,比如英国;还有一种就是所有土地都归国家所有,带有专制集权色彩。但目前最主要的封建制国家是世袭的,而且跨国。如果涵盖南极地区的话,澳大利亚是全世界第二大国家。事实上,这都为女王所有。她还拥有全世界第三大国家—加拿大。要把女王所有的土地资产加起来的话,俄罗斯将不再是国土面积最大的国家。

Who Owns the World Official Web Site
“Queen Elizabeth II the largest landowner on Earth.”

Queen Elizabeth II, 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.

The value of her land holding. £17,600,000,000,000 (approx).

This makes her the richest individual on earth. However, there is no way easily to 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). 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.

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 Queen’s land holding of 6,600 million acres. The 3rd largest landowner is the Chinese state, which claims all of Chinese land, about 2,365 million acres. The 4th largest landowner on earth is the Federal Government of the United States, which owns about one third of the land of the USA, 760 million acres. The fifth largest landowner on earth is the King of Saudi Arabia with 553 million acres

 
Largest five personal landowners on Earth

Queen Elizabeth II 6,600 million acres
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia 553 million acres
King Bhumibol of Thailand 126 million acres
King Mohammed IV of Morocco 113 million acres
Sultan Quaboos of Oman 76 million acres

Who Owns the World

In his 2006 book, Who Owns the World: The Hidden Facts Behind Landownership, Kevin Cahill notes that Queen Elizabeth II is the legal owner of one sixth of the land on the Earth's surface, more than any other individual or nation. This amounts to a total of 6,600 million acres (2.7×1013 m2) in 32 countries. For those unfamiliar with royalty, the Crown is never separate from the individual who holds it but is as one with them. Her Majesty the Queen is the Crown while she is Queen, and she loses neither her personality nor her individuality while she is monarch. In all territories owned by the Crown, including Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, the governments of those countries do not own the land of the country, but may and frequently do administer it on behalf of its owner, HM Elizabeth II. More significantly all forms of land possession in those territories are based, formally and in law, on the Crown's superior ownership. This is why the Land Registry in places like the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia cannot register land ownership, only tenure. This is also why freehold and leasehold are defined in law as forms of tenure, not ownership.

Cahill also noted that of all the countries in the world that he looked at over a several year period, the only major country in which ownership of land was clearly defined as belonging to the citizens who had paid for it was the United States. This is sometimes called 'allodial' ownership, but is a changed meaning of that word. Originally 'allodial' meant land that could not be bought or sold or have a debt attached to it. Countries which have a form of direct ownership, even if it is not clear in their respective constitutions, include Germany, Switzerland, France, possibly Spain and in the future, Russia. In the United States the Federal Government owns about one third of the land of the country. But it does so as a landowner on a legal par with any other landowner and without a superior right to any land other than that endorsed on deeds as the property of the Federal Government. As a government the Federal Authorities and other public bodies do possess the right, sometimes called 'eminent domain', to acquire privately owned land for public purposes.

The landowners of Europe, who get 60% of the EU agricultural subsidy of EURO 48,000 million, who own 60% of Europe, but who constitute less than 0.2% of its population.


1014日出版的英国《新政客》杂志封面故事

  文章内容:本周《新政客》描述了英国即将到来的土地和财产之争,曝光了英国土地的真正主人。

  文章称,英国共有约2428万公顷土地,但是70%的土地掌握在不到1%的人手中。英国有6000多名大地主,其中多数为贵族、王室,他们拥有 1619万公顷土地,相当于英国所有土地的三分之二。英国最大的20个地主家族拥有的土地,比肯特郡、埃塞克斯郡以及贝德福德郡三个郡的面积还大。这些地 主通常用平方公里衡量他们的土地面积。英国民众平均拥有的土地不到284平方米。

CANADA

This submission was prepared by Kay Cahill FRSA, BSc (Econ) and Jennifer Copley BFA BEd. of the Infodemons Information Consultancy (Canada) and edited by Kevin Cahill

 

Canada is a kingdom, also called a dominion, whose head of state is a Queen, Elizabeth 11. She is also Queen of the United Kingdom and of 32 other countries and territories. Canada was taken from France for the Crown of Great Britain following a battle near Quebec in 1759. The country retains a strong French influence especially in Quebec province, and has two official languages, English and French. 

 

Population of Canada. 2005 census, 32.2 million people. The capital of Canada is Ottowa. Population of the capital 1,063,044. Canada is an independent kingdom and a member of the Commonwealth. Canada became a Dominion in 1867 and received a new Constitution in 1982 by way of amendment to the Canada Act of 1867. Total area of Canada: 2,467 million acres Of this area 2,247 million acres is land and 220 million acres are fresh water. The Europa World Yearbook 2004 describes Canada’s land area as the second largest in the world, after Russia.

 

The ownership factor is 1. The Queen is the sole legal owner of all the land of Canada. The private “holdership” factor, based on freehold tenure of housing is 67%. For all other land it is less than 9.7%, with over 90% of Canadian land remaining as Crown leasehold, administered for the Crown by various agencies and departments of the government of Canada

 

GNI in 2005 was $28,390 and Canada ranked 21 in the World Bank list

 

In the Economist Quality of Life survey Canada scored 7.59 and was ranked 21 out of 111 countries.

 

About 79% of the Canadian population is urban and there is no basic poverty in Canada.

 

There are 75.9 acres per person in Canada.

How Canada is owned

 

All physical land in Canada is the property of the Crown, Queen Elisabeth 11. There is no provision in the Canada Act, or in the Constitution Act 1982 which amends it, for any Canadian to own any physical land in Canada. All that Canadians may hold, in conformity with medieval and feudal law, is “an interest in an estate in land in fee simple”. Land defined as ‘Crown land’ in Canada, and administered by the Federal Government and the Provinces, is merely land not ‘dedicated’ or assigned in freehold tenure. Freehold is tenure, not ownership. Freehold land is ‘held’ not ‘owned’.

 

Canada, a vast territory dominating the north of the North American continent, was colonised by the British from 1497 when Cabot left Bristol and reached New Foundland. Subsequently, most of Canada fell under French control. In 1759, at the result of a single battle at Quebec, Britain took Canada from the French. In 1867 Canada became the first Crown colony to obtain self government within the Empire as a Dominion. Throughout most of the 19th century, it was the stated policy of the American political parties to annex Canada. They were prevented from doing so only by the threat of British sea power. Canada is now, with Britain, America’s closest ally, despite some differences. The policy of annexing Canada has been shelved because not even America could afford the bill from the Crown, about $16 trillion. Canada is a federation of 13 provinces.

Land in Canada

 

Just 9.7% of the land of Canada is privately held. The majority of the land, 90.3%, is Crown Land, otherwise known as Public Land. Of this, 50% is Crown land administered by the Provincial governments and 40.3% is Crown land administered by the federal government.

Canada is on of the greatest land resources on the earth, and one of the most beautiful. There is more unused land in Canada than almost anywhere else on the planet. To give an indication of the relative size of Canada’s provinces are here ranked opposite the countries they are closest to in size with their associated populations. 

Province

Acreage

Country

 

Acreage

Size rank in the world

Population

Of the comparative countries

Newfoundland/Labrador

100,127,885

Paraguay

100,510,720

59

5,356,000

Prince Edward Island

1,398,586

Brunei

1,424,640

166

350,000

Nova Scotia

13,794,110

Croatia

13,971,840

125

4,442,000

New Brunswick

18,015,566

Panama

18,660,480

117

3,116,000

Quebec

381,042,037

Mongolia

385,501,760

19

2,504,000

Ontario

265,977,204

Bolivia

271,464,960

28

9,025,000

Manitoba

160,070,638

Afghanistan

161,134,720

41

22,930,000

Saskatchewan

160,870,995

Afghanistan

161,134,720

41

22,930,000

Alberta

157,707,374

Somalia

157,568,640

42

9,480,000

British Columbia

233,440,018

Tanzania

233,536,000

31

29,984,000

Yukon

119,211,665

Turkmenistan

120,611,840

52

4,859,000

Northwest Territories

332,622,792

Peru

317,584,000

20

27,148,000

Nunavut

517,227,249

Mexico

485,407,360

15

104,214,000

Totals

 

2,461,506,119

 

 

 

2,428,511,680



Total Population

31,660,294

Census 2000.




 

246,338,000

 

The total acreage here is based on the sum of the Canadian provinces as officially cited in the Canadian Government web site. (2,467,264.640 acres) There is a difference of about 6 million acres between this total and the official size of Canada as cited in the Europa World Yearbook. This is a difference of 0.2% and is accounted for by variations in survey methods.

Principal uses of land in Canada:

National Parks

 

There are 43 National Parks in Canada, which cover a total of 55,465,548 acres, or 2.2% of the total area of Canada.

Agriculture

 

Farms cover a total of 166,798,546 acres in Canada. There are a total of 246,923 farms, with an average size of 674.5 acres. 235,131 farms covering a total of 62,359,984 acres are privately held. The remainder, covering 104,438,561acres, are rented or leased from others.

Private homes

 

There are a total of 11,562,975 dwellings in Canada. Of these, 7,417,525 are held in freehold tenure by the resident homeowner. 64% of Canadians hold their own home. Mining

 

Mining companies operate in all Canadian provinces. The main minerals mined are gold, copper, zinc, lead, coal, oil and natural gas. Most mining land is leased, on Crown leases.

Forestry

 

Forest and All Other Wooded Land in Canada

Provincial Portion by Province:

 

Province

 

Forest Land Owned by Each Province in acres

 

Newfoundland/Labrador

 

48,967,807

 

Prince Edward Island

 

56,833

 

Nova Scotia

 

3,148,054

 

New Brunswick

 

7,373,464

 

Quebec

 

185,092,726

 

Ontario

 

153,412,035

 

Manitoba

 

84,681,170

 

Saskatchewan

 

53,936,988

 

Alberta

 

80,386,572

 

British Columbia

 

152,300,085

 

Yukon

 

55,782,825

 

Northwest Territories

 

79,996,154

 

Nunavut

 

2,320,269

 

Federal (Total/Aboriginal/Other)

 

Province

 

Forest Land held by the Federal Government in Each Province in Acres

 

Aboriginal Land

 

Other Federal

 

Total

 

Newfoundland/Labrador

0

 

237,216

237,216

 

Prince Edward Island

0

 

2,471

(672,112)

 

Nova Scotia

22,239

 

266,868

289,107

 

New Brunswick

4,942

 

323,701

328,625

 

Quebec

607,866

 

378,063

985,929

 

Ontario

1,210,790

 

573,272

1,784,062

 

Manitoba

301,462

 

1,153,957

1,455,419

 

Saskatchewan

306,404

 

2,050,930

2,357,334

 

Alberta

570,801

 

6,278,811

6,849,612

 

British Columbia

560,917

 

1,087,240

1,648,157

 

Yukon

0

 

528,794

528,794

 

Northwest Territories

0

 

2,401,812

2,401,812

 

Nunavut

0

 

0

0

Private land (Total/Industrial, Nonindustrial)

 

Total

 

Privately held Land in acres

 

Industrial

 

Nonindustrial

 

Other

 

Total

 

Newfoundland/Labrador

 

165,557

 

0

 

217,448

 

383,005

 

Prince Edward Island

 

0

 

0

 

610,337

 

610,337

 

Nova Scotia

 

2,293,088

 

5,011,188

 

 

 

7,304,276

 

New Brunswick

 

3,170,293

 

4,462,626

 

0

 

7,632,919

 

Quebec

 

2,720,571

 

20,165,831

 

2,471

 

22,870,873

 

Ontario

 

1,564,143

 

11,836,090

 

155,673

 

13,555,906

 

Manitoba

 

0

 

2,456,174

 

271,810

 

2,727,984

 

Saskatchewan

 

0

 

0

 

3,644,725

 

3,644,725

 

Alberta

 

0

 

2,641,499

 

37,065

 

2,678,564

 

British Columbia

 

0

 

4,398,380

 

0

 

4,398,380

 

Yukon

 

0

 

0

 

0

 

0

 

Northwest Territories

 

0

 

0

 

0

 

0

 

Nunavut

 

0

 

0

 

0

 

0

 

 

Unclassified: 19,768 acres total (17,297 acres in Quebec and 2,471 acres in Alberta)

 

45% (45 percent – 1,031,889,600 acres) of Canada’s land area is forested.

 

71% of the forested land is held by provincial governments, 23% by federal and territorial governments, and 6% is privately held by approximately 425,000 private owners consisting of individuals, families, communities, and forest companies.

 

Forest companies often manage forests and engage in logging activities in a partnership with the government, rather than holding forest land in Canada. The government, or the public, actually holds the forest and simply leases it to various companies who do the logging and management in many cases.

Forest companies hold just over 1.5% of Canada’s wooded land.

The landowners of Europe, who get 60% of the EU agricultural subsidy of EURO 48,000 million, who own 60% of Europe, but who constitute less than 0.2% of its population.

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