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Land of Oz
The Land of Oz is the fictional fantasy country created by L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and expanded across his fourteen Oz novels.
Land of Punt
Land of Punt (Ta netjer, God's Land): ancient Egyptian trade partner south and east of Egypt, attested from Sahure (25th century BC) to Ramesses III; source of myrrh, gold, ebony, ivory; location debated, likely southern Red Sea and Horn of Africa.
Land of Sin (TV series)
Land of Sin (Synden) is a 2026 Swedish Netflix limited crime series: five episodes by Peter Grönlund starring Krista Kosonen as investigator Dani probing teenager Silas's death on the Bjäre peninsula.
Land of the Dead
Land of the Dead (2005), George A. Romero's fourth Living Dead film, released by Universal June 24, 2005; zombies led by Big Daddy attack Dennis Hopper's walled city Fiddler's Green; $20.4M US gross, 75% Tomatometer.
Land of the Giants
Land of the Giants is an Irwin Allen ABC science fiction series (1968–1970, 51 episodes) about Spindrift castaways stranded on a planet twelve times Earth's scale, budgeted at $250,000 per episode.
Land of the Lost (1974 TV series)
Land of the Lost (1974 TV series), NBC Saturday-morning live-action sci-fi by Sid and Marty Krofft; 43 episodes, 1974–1976; Marshall family, dinosaurs, Pakuni, Sleestak; 1991 revival and 2009 film.
Land of the Lost (film)
Land of the Lost is a 2009 American comedy-adventure film starring Will Ferrell as a paleontologist pulled into a dinosaur world, loosely based on the 1974 TV series.
Land of the Lustrous (宝石の国)
Land of the Lustrous (宝石の国, Houseki no Kuni) is Haruko Ichikawa's manga, serialized in Monthly Afternoon 2012–2024 in 13 volumes, about 28 immortal gem people fighting moon-raiding Lunarians; adapted as a 2017 full-3DCG anime by Orange and winner of the 45th Japan SF Grand Prize.
Land of Women
Land of Women (Tierra de mujeres) is a 2024 Apple TV+ six-episode dramedy starring Eva Longoria, Carmen Maura, and Victoria Bazúa, adapted from Sandra Barneda's novel, about a New Yorker fleeing to a Spanish wine town; 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Land Ordinance of 1785
The Land Ordinance of 1785, adopted May 20, 1785 by the Confederation Congress, created the rectangular public-land survey: 6-mile townships of 36 sections (640 acres each), school-section reservations, and the basis of the PLSS.
Land planning
Land planning (land-use planning) is the systematic assessment of physical, social, and economic factors to guide land use. Distinguished from spatial planning, it relies on zoning and strategic plans, is mostly local, and spans over 100,000 plans across OECD countries.
Land reclamation
Land reclamation creates new land from seas or lakes by filling with sand or by diking and drainage (polders). Key examples: Singapore (28% reclaimed land), Dubai's Palm Jumeirah, Shanghai's Lingang; costs typically under €500/m², with significant environmental impacts.
Land reform
Land reform, also called land redistribution or agrarian reform, is large-scale government intervention to redistribute land ownership or secure rights over it, through redistribution, restitution, or tenure reform.
Land Reform Campaign
The Land Reform Campaign (土地改革运动) was the Communist Party's redistribution of land from landlords to poor peasants in China, carried out from 1950 to 1953.
Land reform in Afghanistan
Land reform in Afghanistan refers to government programs redistributing land to landless peasants, most prominently the 1978 Decree No. 8 of the Democratic Republic, suspended by 1979 after fueling rural insurgency.
Land reform in Czechoslovakia
Land reform in Czechoslovakia (pozemková reforma) was a state program begun in 1919 that seized large noble and church estates and parceled them out to small farmers and war invalids.
Land reform in India
Land reform in India: post-1947 abolition of zamindari intermediaries, tenancy reform, land ceilings, Bhoodan, and regional redistribution (Kerala, West Bengal), now extended to DILRMP land-records digitization.
Land reform in Kyrgyzstan
Land reform in Kyrgyzstan was the post-Soviet program that distributed state and collective farm land to rural households from 1991, giving about 510,000 families 99-year transferable use rights.
Land reform in North Korea
Land reform in North Korea, proclaimed March 5, 1946, redistributed about half of northern farmland free of charge from Japanese owners and landlords to peasants.
Land reform in South Africa
Land reform in South Africa: post-1994 restitution, redistribution, and tenure reform programme under Constitution section 25, reversing 1913 Natives Land Act dispossession; includes the contested Expropriation Act of 2024 and land audit ownership figures.
Land reform in Zimbabwe
Land reform in Zimbabwe (Fast Track Land Reform Programme, FTLRP): redistribution of white-owned farmland to Black farmers, from Lancaster House-era resettlement after 1980 to the violent 2000 seizures, 2020 compensation, and 2024 tenure reform.
Land registration
Land registration is the official recording of legally recognized interests in land, usually as part of a cadastral system; a reliable register lets owners sell, let, or mortgage land more easily.
Land Rover
Land Rover is a British brand of four-wheel-drive vehicles, founded in 1948. It is a heritage mark for brands owned by Jaguar Land Rover and Tata Motors.
Land Rover Defender
The Land Rover Defender, sold as the Ninety and One Ten before 1990, is a British four-wheel-drive vehicle produced in Solihull until 2016 and relaunched in 2020.
Land Rover Defender (L663)
The Land Rover Defender is a four-wheel-drive SUV produced by Jaguar Land Rover since 2020, built in Nitra, Slovakia, in 90, 110, and 130 body styles.
Land Rover Discovery
The Land Rover Discovery, also known as the LR3, is a seven-seat sport utility vehicle made by Land Rover since 1989, conceived as a family-oriented Range Rover companion.
Land Rover Discovery Sport
The Land Rover Discovery Sport is a compact premium SUV built by Jaguar Land Rover at Halewood from 2014 to 2026, replacing the Freelander with optional 5+2 seating.
Land Rover engines
Land Rover engines are the petrol, diesel, hybrid, and electric power units used in Land Rover and Range Rover vehicles since 1948, from the original Series I unit onward.
Land Rover Freelander
The Land Rover Freelander, also sold as the Land Rover LR2, is a compact SUV produced from 1997 to 2015 and Europe's best-selling 4x4 for five years.
Land Rover series
The Land Rover series is a family of four-wheel-drive utility vehicles built by the Rover Company at Solihull, England, from 1948 to 1985, comprising the Series I, II, IIA, and III.