The Ministry of Defence is one of the United Kingdom's largest landowners, owning <answer>227,300 hectares</answer> of land and foreshore (either freehold or leasehold) at April 2014, which was valued at "about £20 billion". The MoD also has "rights of access" to a further 222,000 hectares. In total, this is about 1.8% of the UK land mass. The total annual cost to support the defence estate is "in excess of £3.3 billion".
How much land is owned by the MoD?
227,300 hectares