In 2026, the Walt Disney Company remains one of the largest private landowners in Florida, owning approximately 25,000 to 27,000 acres (roughly 40 to 43 square miles) in Central Florida. This vast contiguous tract of land primarily encompasses the Walt Disney World Resort and is situated across both Orange and Osceola counties. To put the scale into perspective, this is roughly the size of the city of San Francisco or twice the size of Manhattan. While Disney originally purchased closer to 30,000 acres in the 1960s, parts of the land have been designated as permanent conservation areas (such as the 12,000-acre Disney Wilderness Preserve, which was donated to The Nature Conservancy) or developed into the residential community of Celebration, which Disney no longer directly controls. Despite recent high-profile legislative changes regarding the governing district (now the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District), Disney still holds the underlying title to this massive territory, which contains four theme parks, dozens of hotels, two water parks, and significant undeveloped wetlands held for future expansion.