Biggest Mall in the World

By suplado on Mar 13, 2008 in Finance, Top 10, Uncategorized

After the coldest temperature here in the Philippines for the past months now, summer time has finally come. It’s really hot nowadays even though an amount of scatter rain shower hit us this afternoon but still the warm season cannot be avoided now. This is the reason why most of us Filipinos hang out in our favorite spots during summer season are the air conditioned mall. Malls are becoming bigger and bigger now a days. Unlike before malls would mean just only small department store, where you can only purchase certain product but now a total complete place or a one stop shop. Complete with all amenities, there’s no need anymore to find or to transfer from one mall to another if you are shopping around and comparing prices.

Malls now days are now equipped with complete entertainment venue, with movie theaters, concert venues — a complete family place. Before if you want to eat, you go to restaurant. If you want to watch movie go to movie houses, if you want sport go to gym and other sport venue. If you want to out picnic with your family go to some park. Now if you want to do all these things mentioned, just go to the malls.

Here is the list of the biggest malls in the world.

Shopping Mall	Year Opened	GLA Square feet (Square meters)	Total Area Square feet (Square meters)
South China Mall Dongguan, China	2005	7.1-million (660,000)	9.6-million (892,000)
Jin Yuan (Golden Resources Shopping Mall) Beijing, China	2004	6.0-million (560,000)	7.3-million (680,000)
SM Mall of Asia Pasay City, Philippines	2006	4.2-million (386,000)*
West Edmonton Mall Edmonton, Alberta, Canada	1981	3.8-million (350,000)	5.3-million (570,000)
Cevahir Istanbul Istanbul, Turkey	2005	3.8-million (348,000)	4.5-million (420,000)
SM City North Edsa Quezon City, Philippines	1985	3.6-million (332,000)*
SM Megamall Mandaluyong City Philippines	1991	3.6-million (332,000)*
Berjaya Times Square Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2005	3.4-million (320,000)	7.5-million (700,000)
Beijing Mall Beijing, China	2005	3.4-million (320,000)	4.7-million (440,000)
Zhengjia Plaza (Grandview Mall) Guangzhou, China	2005	3.0-million (280,000)	4.5-million (420,000)
SM City Cebu Cebu City, Philippines	1991	2.9-million (267,000)