Top - Shopping Malls of the World

    Top Shot To The World Largest Shopping Malls
      We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls. -- (Neither Here Nor There, 1991)
                                                                           - Bill Bryson

South China Mall- Dongguan, China

The mall contains sufficient space for as many as 2,350 stores in approximately 659,612 m² and 892,000 m² of total area.

The mall has seven zones modeled on international cities, nations and regions:

Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Venice, Egypt, the Caribbean, and California.Features include an 25 m replica of the Arc de Triomphe, a replica of Venice's St Mark's bell tower, a 2.1 km canal with gondolas and an 553-meter indoor-outdoor roller coaster.
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Golden Resources Shopping Mall -Beijing,China

Total area of 6 million square feet (557,419 square metres) over six floors.The mall has earned the nickname Great Mall of China.

The mall was completed on 20 October 2004 after 20 months of construction and opened four days later. The total number of stores exceeds 1200 and is 2nd largest mall in the world.
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Centralworld Mall - Bangkok, Thailand

The third largest shopping complex in the world. The complex, including a hotel and office tower.In 2006, after three years of design and renovation,

Centralworld was expanded to 550,000 square metres of shopping mall and 1,024,000 square metres of complex, topping its nearby rival Siam Paragon in terms of size.

On May 19, 2010, CentralWorld was seriously damaged by the fire that rioters caused in the aftermath of a military operation against anti-government protesters known as Red Shirts. Read More

The SM Mall of Asia - Pasay City, Philippines

SM Mall of Asia is the 2nd largest shopping mall in the Philippines and the 4^th (Ref. Forbes' World's 10 Largest Shopping Malls) largest shopping mall in the world. It has a land area of 42 hectares and has a gross floor area of an approximate 390,193 m² (4.2 million square feet)and 407,101 m² of total area.

The Dream Mall- Taiwan

It was designed by international architecture firm RTKL, based in Baltimore, Maryland and opened on May 12, 2007, and contains restaurants, movie theater, gym, and entertainment facilities including a rooftop amusement park.

The rooftop amusement park at Dream Mall has Ferris wheel of diameter of 50 metres (160 ft). Building and wheel have a combined height of 102 metres (335 ft). Read More

Cevahir Shopping Centre- Istanbul, Turkey

Opened on 15 October 2005 Cevahir Mall is the largest shopping centre in europe the sixth largest in the world. It took eight years to complete Cevahir Shopping Centre of 4,521,000 sq ft grass area and took approx. US$250 million to build.

There are 343 shops, some of which are the first in Turkey to sell certain international brands; 34 fast food restaurants and 14 exclusive restaurants in the shopping centre.

Berjaya Times Square - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

It is a twin tower complex containing a shopping centre and two five star hotels, opened in October 2003.

It is currently the fifth largest building in the world and has also been tagged as the "world's largest building ever built in a single phase", with 7.5 million square feet (700,000 m²) of built up floor area. .

It offers shopping, luxury accommodation, business, food and entertainment. Currently, it has space for more than 1,000 retail shops, 1,200 luxury service suites, 65 food outlets.Berjaya Times Square is the 13th biggest shopping mall in the world.