Malls have entrenched as the significant part of lives of many people in this century. These malls are huge and features all kind of hundreds of retail stores, selling all the products that a man desires as a source of fashion and entertainment. Shopping Malls are probably is one such place where society can go to glare latest products, relax, socialize, and encounter the today's culture. Below are the list of best curated 14 Largest Malls in the World measured in square feet in ascending order.
Berjaya Times Square (7.5 million sq ft)
Located in the center of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, the Berjaya Times Square is the largest Shopping Mall in the World. The Berjaya Times Square is owned by the Malaysian businessman and investor at cost/price of 75 billion Malaysian Currency. The 48-storey and 203 metre height twin tower comprises of 5 star hotel, huge condominium, indoor amusement theme park and hundreds of shopping retail stores with total monthly footfall of more than 2.6 Million people. The mall is merely 20 minutes walk able distance from world renowned Petronas Towers and 10 minutes from the nearest KL Sentral Train Station.
Mall Highlight : Berjaya Times Square Theme Park
Mall Started : 2003
Location : Jalan Imbi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Transport : Just 10 minutes from KL Sentral Train Station.
New South China Mall (7.1 million sq ft)
Formerly known as South China Mall, the name was later relabeled to New South China Mall as part of revitalization plan by current owners the Founders Group. New South China Mall is around 50 metres tall which includes magnificent IMAX threatre, dedicated swimming pool along with seven zones modeled on international nations and cities such as Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Venice, Egypt, the Caribbean, and California. Although the mall was considered as the second largest mall in the world, but lately due to its less occupancy of retail stores and detracting count of visitors than earlier recorded 70,000 visitors, the mall comprehended as the largest abandoned mall in the world.
Mall Highlight : International nations and city modeled zones
Mall Started : 2005
Location : Wanjiang Shangquan, Dongguan, China
Transport : None. Prefer Private vehicle if opt to visit.
SM Tianjin Mall (6.8 million sq ft)
Inaugurated four years ago, the SM Tianjin Mall Shopping Mall is part of chain of total 67 Malls both in Philippines and China which is licensed under SM Prime Holdings. SM Tianjin Mall is located in the Tianjin's Airport Economic Area that eventually has the largest free trade zone in North China. The Mall is spread across 6.8 million square feet and technically designed in three structures that are positioned in such way that it actually resemble as large blossoming flower with white petals from above, symbolizing growth, prosperity and opportunity. Each of the Structures offer lavish experiences in dining, shopping and entertainment as well as 8,110 parking slots for the visitors.
Mall Highlight : Small Music performances by popular local and international artists
Mall Inaugrated : [2016]
Location : SM International Square Jinjiang, Fujian, China
Transport : Private Vehicle and Public Transport
Golden Resources Mall (6 million sq ft)
The Golden Resources Mall, also known as Great Mall of China owing to the fact that it is built in total area of 6 million square feet, which is probably why it was acknowledged as the largest mall during the Inauguration. However, it currently stands at fourth rank in the largest malls in the world Index. Golden Resources Mall sized at six storey high and spanned across almost as big of six football fields. The mall features hundreds of branded and local stores, selling a plethora of products from FMCGs to entertainment and accordingly have registered the peak of 50,000 monthly visitors.
Mall Highlight : Local and International retail stores
Mall Started : 2004
Location : Yuanda Rd, Haidian District, Beijing, China
Transport : Just 10 minute walk from Yuandaludong train station.
CentralWorld (5.9 million sq ft)
CentralWorld is huge mall after CentralPlaza WestGate, located in the chidlom area of mainland Bangkok, especially known for its bustling streets with many other malls around the place. The CentralWorld is the product of Central Pattan, which is retail property and investment company. The record holding largest mall in Thailand is 9 storey high and spanned across 5.9 million square feet seamlessly appointing space for 495 retail stores that includes boutiques, funky fashion, high-tech stores, bookshops and designer interior stuffs to imported groceries, banks, beauty salons, gourmet eateries and even an ice-skating rink. The mall is easily accessible from nearest Siam BTS station.
Mall Highlight : Grand open atrium Rink Ice Arena
Mall Started : 1990
Location : Pathum Wan, Pathum Wan District, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Transport : Just 2 minute distance from Siam station.
CentralPlaza Westgate (5.9 million sq ft)
CentralPlaza WestGate in Nonthaburi Province of Thailand is a large shopping plaza and complex. Inaugurated in 2015, the mall subsequently awarded as the biggest mall in Thailand, comprising of reputed furniture department stores, hundreds of shops and restaurants accumulated in the 6 storey floor space CentralPlaza WestGate is well accessible because of two busy national highways intersecting right in front of the mall.
Mall Highlight : Large Fashion Plus zone
Mall Started : 2015
Location : Bang Yai District, Nonthaburi 11140, Thailand
Transport : 2 bus stops, 4 taxi stands and MRT Talad Bangyai Station.
The Dubai Mall (5.4 million sq ft)
Just located next to the Grand Burj Khalifa, the Dubai Mall absolutely adorn the term large in true sense. The mall is known to be among the world largest mall in the world since past decade, with total area spanned across 5.4 million square feet owned by the Emaar Properties at price of 218 million Dollars. The Dubai Mall is an core of prime shops, entertainment zones, amusement parks, spectacular restaurants, magnificent Dubai Fountain and luxury stores for the finest shopping in Dubai, along with famous world class Dubai Aquarium, unique VR Park, Underwater Zoo with hundreds of aquatic animals and a 270-degree walk able tunnel.
Mall Highlight : The world-class Dubai Aquarium and unique walkthrough tunnel from Underwater Zoo contains hundreds of aquatic animals
Mall Started : [2008]
Location : Financial Center Street, Along Sheikh Zayed Road, Next to Burj Khalifa - United Arab Emirates
Transport : Walkable distance from Burj Khalifa/The Dubai Mall station.
West Edmonton Mall (5.3 million sq ft)
West Edmonton Mall is the only largest mall from Canada marking in this list, especially because of its humongous structure featuring everything from World's largest indoor Galaxyland amusement park, World's largest triple loop indoor Mindbender roller coaster and World's largest indoor Deep Sea Adventure Lake. Interestingly, the West Edmonton Mall "Eighth Wonder of the World," for its record footfall of around 30 million visitors a year.
Mall Highlight : World's largest indoor amusement park, the triple loop indoor roller coaster and indoor lake.
Mall Started : 1981
Location : 170 St NW, Edmonton, AB T5T 4J2, Canada
Transport : 178 Street and 87 Avenue train stations.
SM City North EDSA (5.3 million sq ft)
SM Prime Holdings, again making its mark in the list with its SM City North EDSA after the SM Tianjin Mall, which is the first Mall operated under the company. Since its inauguration in 1985, SM City North EDSA have gone through many redevelopment and expansion to multiple zones from The Annex, The Block, The Sky Garden, The Northlink and The North Towers, which are 3 storey tall and spanned across 5.3 million square feet of land, making it the ninth largest mall in the world. The mall is located in the Quezon City of Philippines that is in close proximity to North Avenue and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue highway intersection. SM City North EDSA is prime hotspot for tourist and visitors with huge 12.5 million visitors every month.
Mall Highlight : The first Mall of Philippines
Mall Started : 1985
Location : Quezon City, 1105, Philippines
Transport : Road and Taft Avenue MRT Station.
ICONSIAM (5.2 million sq ft)
Situated on the Thonburi side of beautiful Chao Phraya river, ICONSIAM is complete premium mall with more than 100 restaurants, exclusive boutiques, auditorium and 500 luxury retail stores, selling Thai designer suits as well as the classic hand made haute coutures. While mall is what we believe is just for shoppers, but ICONSIAM features just more than that and offer visitors with striking adrenaline activities such as riding tail boats, evident the Bangkok cityscape and walk parallel to the river bank. One can also visit the Heritage Museum and wat traimit temple in the vicinity. The waterfront facing residential and shopping towers have recorded footfall of close to 4.5 million visitors monthly.
Mall Highlight : Spectacular 7-storey Takashimaya (Jewellery Stores), Thai Street Food Indoor Floating Market, The Largest adidas store in Southeast Asia Region
Mall Started : [2018]
Location : Charoen Nakhon Rd, Khlong Ton Sai, Khlong San, Bangkok 10600, Thailand
Transport : Wongwian Yai BTS station.
SM Megamall (5.1 million sq ft)
Located in the Eastern Region of Metropolitan Manila, SM Megamall serves as the prime destination for visitors to Philippines housing all kind of entertainment zones from IMAX Digital theater along with 56-seat Director's Club Cinema with butler service, Ice Skating Rink, Toy Kingdom, Cyberzone, High Standard Foodcourt and a Bowling & Billiards Center. including the branded International stores. Additionally, it also features restaurants and holy Chapel of the Eucharistic Lord Church within the mall. SM Megamall that sits in the Mandaluyong city is actually the second largest mall in the Philippines with monthly footfall of 4.5 million visitors.
Mall Highlight : Luxury plethora of restaurants and great place for traditional foods
Mall Started : 1991
Location : Mandaluyong, 1555 Metro Manila, Philippines
Transport : Just 2 minutes walk from Ortigas train station
SM Mall of Asia (4.6 million sq ft)
In terms of Land Mass, the SM Mall of Asia stands as the fourth largest mall in Philippines operated by the SM Prime Holdings. In contrast to any malls in the Malls, SM Mall of Asia features seamless connectivity through clean walkways to four the buildings. Each of the buildings is designed to serve the visitors with different objective such as Main Mall includes shopping and dining establishments, Entertainment Mall is built as open-air concierge desks facing Manila Bay, while the other two North and South Buildings attributes The SM Store and the latter with SM Hypermarket along with the common big parking space. The total area of the mall is spanned across 4.6 million square feet and easily register 6 Million visitors monthly.
Mall Highlight : Grand Olympic-sized ice skating rink, the massive cinema complex and Science Center
Mall Started : 2006
Location : Seaside Blvd, Pasay, 1300 Metro Manila, Philippines
Transport : Just 10 minutes drive from Taft Ave MRT Mrt-3 train station.
Istanbul Cevahir (4.5 million sq ft)
Built at the cost of 250 million dollars, the Istanbul Cevahir is only largest mall in Turkey constructed in the 4.5 million square feet area comprising of almost 400 retail shops and plethora of local and premium restaurants that records 5.7 million visitors every month and with regards to Entertainment, Istanbul Cevahir mall contains all of the facilities from large stage for live events and shows, striking indoor roller coaster and magnificent multiple threatres. What is Iconic about the mall is that it features the second biggest clock in the world, with three-metre big digits enclosed in the glass roof of the mall buildings.
Mall Highlight : The largest enclosed entertainment center
Mall Started : 2005
Location : Büyükdere Cd. No:22, 34360 Şişli/İstanbul, Turkey
Transport : The visitors can walk about in 10 minutes from Taksim train station.
Siam Paragon (4.3 million sq ft)
After CentralWorld and CentralPlaza Westgate, the Siam Paragon stands as another big mall in Thailand. The area of Siam Paragon is 4.3 million square feet which houses all the major brands featuring trendy designs and classic local traditional clothes. Furthermore, the mall is also home to massive Aquarium with walk through tunnel, along with large premium cinema threatres. Not to mention, One of the picturesque spot in the mall is the water fountain situated in the front space that is popular catch up point among 7.5 million monthly tourists and visitors.
Mall Highlight : The shopping and entertainment zones, along with crafted embroidery of fashion jewelry, restaurants with around the world delicacies
Mall Started : 2005
Location : Pathum Wan, Pathum Wan District, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Transport : Siam train station through the BTS Skywalk to reach Siam Paragon.
DLF Mall (2 million sq ft)
Making its mark in the list, DLF Mall of India is only largest and one of the finest mall in India. Located in the Satellite city Noida, the area of the DLF Mall of India is spread across 2 million square feet which usually records 5.6 million visitors exploring the mall. DLF Mall of India is owned by the former IPL sponsor DLF which is real estate investor and developer. The 6 storey tall mall is built at 200 million dollars that contains all the local and international brands, along with divine restaurants with essence of India's popular delicacies.
Mall Highlight : Grand indoor snow park, Excellent Food court.
Mall Started : [2016]
Location : Sector 18, Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Transport : Just 6 minutes walk from Sector 18 Metro Station.
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