Total area502,000 m^2
38,615Parking spaces
295,294Human skin surfaces
1.4 millionCornhole boards
Retail floor area
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Dubai Mall
The world's largest shopping mall by total area/Modern Buildings
The Dubai Mall is the largest shopping mall in the world by total area, encompassing 502,000 square meters of retail space within a total built area of over 1.1 million square meters. It contains over 1,200 shops, an Olympic-sized ice rink, a 10-million-liter aquarium, and a 24-screen cinema. Opened in 2008, it attracts over 80 million visitors per year, making it the most visited building on the planet. It is less a mall and more a small city that happens to have a lot of shoe stores.
Measurements
Total built area1.1 million m^2
109 millionUS dollar bills
23.9 millioniPad screens
7.5 billionPinky fingernails
Including non-retail space
Estimated structural mass1.5 billion kg
30 quintillionYeast cells
15,000Locomotive weights
3.8 billionCans of soup
Rough estimate