World's Largest Shopping Malls by Leasable Area
About This Dataset
World's Largest Shopping Malls by Leasable Area
Shopping centres ranked by total gross leasable area (GLA) in thousands of square metres. China dominates the global list of largest shopping malls — the New South China Mall in Dongguan is the world's largest with over 890,000 square metres of leasable space, though it has faced persistent vacancy issues since opening, earning the nickname the "world's largest empty mall."
Analysis
New South China Mall (China) heads the table on 892, ahead of Iran Mall (Iran) (817) and Dubai Mall (UAE) (502) in Gross Leasable Area (Thousand sqm). 661 separates the highest figure (892) from the lowest (231). First and second are separated by 75, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Places 3 to 8 are close together, spanning 502 to 231.
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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New South China Mall (China) leads in Gross Leasable Area (Thousand sqm) with 892.
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Average Gross Leasable Area (Thousand sqm): 500 · median: 436.
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Gap: New South China Mall (China) is 3.9× larger than West Edmonton Mall (Canada).
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Gross Leasable Area (Thousand sqm)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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