• tal@lemmy.today
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    Since the Catholic church now owns more land than anybody else on Earth (170 million acres)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_lands

    Federal lands are lands in the United States owned and managed by the federal government.

    The federal government manages about 640 million acres (2.6 million km2) of land in the United States…

    I’d also guess that the Russian and Canadian governments are up there.

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      And the farthest west you go, the more the federal government owns lands. In some states like Nevada, the state only owns a small portion of their state land.

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        This caused a lot of problems when the state courts tried to protect Native American lands being leveled by the Trump admin because of his bullshit wall but the federal government just outright ignored them.

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      8 hours ago

      Russia being a dictatorship implies they have total unquestionable control of all of Russian territory, which would put them at the top of the list by a lot.