~ World’s Richest Women 2012 ~

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Antonia Johnson, 68



Net worth: $6.5 billion – As of March 2012

Source of Wealth: Diversified, Sweden

In 1982 she succeeded her father as chairman of the board for Axel Johnson AB, Sweden, and Axel Johnson Inc., a diversified trading company founded by her great-grandfather in 1873.

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Blair Parry-Okeden, 61



Net worth: $6.3 billion – As of March 2012

Source of Wealth: Cox Enterprises, U.S.

The granddaughter of Cox Enterprises founder James M. Cox (d. 1957), Parry-Okeden inherited 25% stake in the business after her mother, Barbara Cox Anthony, passed away in 2007.

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Wu Yajun, 48



Net worth:$5.7 billion – As of March 2012

Source of Wealth: Real Estate, China (Self made)

The richest self-made woman in the world is former journalist, Wu Yajun graduated from the Department of Navigation Engineering of the Northwestern Polytechnical University in 1984 with a degree in engineering, and from 1988 to 1993 worked as a journalist and editor with the China Shirong News Agency. She is onwer of Hong Kong-listed real estate developer Longfor Properties. Wu shares her fortune with her husband, who also holds a stake in the company.

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Yang Huiyan, 30



Net worth: $4.7 billion

Source of Wealth: Real Estate

Daughter of Chinese entrepreneur and the founder of Country Garden Group, Yeung Kwok Keung, transferred his holding of the family’s main fortune, shares in family-controlled real estate developer Country Garden Holdings. Yang is the majority shareholder of Country Garden Holdings.

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Rosalia Mera, 68



Net worth: $4.5 billion – As of March 2012

Source of Wealth: Zara

Ex-wife of fashion executive Amancio Ortega Gaona, and co-founder of Inditex (parent company of Zara retail stores). Rosalia Mera is Spain’s richest woman. Mera and Ortega are long-divorced, but she still holds a 5.8% stake in Inditex, plus a pile of cash from its 2001 IPO.