ABSTRACT
This chapter examines several cognitive concepts of land as a prelude to determining the relevance of a good land administration system. Land comprises all naturally occurring resources whose supply is fixed. It provides features of the working of nature without human efforts and exists within the envelope of nature and also as the natural environment. Land in its physical form of buildings and resources is characterised by cognitive concepts that reflect the different ways people think about it worldwide. Land is the primary factor of production in economics, besides labour, capital and entrepreneurship. Land can be traded in the real estate market, with spatial land use as a tool to promote its trading as a residential, commercial, industrial, farming or recreational commodity in a disaggregate market. Land provides a fixed space for life. Land symbolises a group of people living in a particular community with a common interest and of a given name of identification.
