Political sorts in Scotland like to produce statistics like &quot;70% of the land area of Scotland is owned by 500 people!&quot; in order to shock people into supporting their generally redistributive political views - it is endlessly brought up.<p>But when you factor in land area value - if you could distort the area of Scotland such that the land value and the area were 1:1 - then suddenly it doesn&#x27;t look anything like as bad. As the market says that owning a 4 bedroom flat in the west end of Glasgow in fact is worth more then 10,000 acres of land in the highlands.<p>Given as well that Scotland has very robust &quot;right to roam&quot; - people can walk on privately owned land as long as it isn&#x27;t your back garden - and also laws to allow &quot;wild camping&quot; and so on, it just doesn&#x27;t seem like that big of an issue to me either.<p>But nationalists in every country become obsessed with who owns the country, especially if it is people outwith the country, people against their cause etc - the SNP are no different.