A shopping mall is a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term mall originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, it began to be used as a generic term for the large enclosed shopping centers that were becoming increasingly commonplace. In the United Kingdom and other countries, shopping malls may be called shopping centers.
The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, the largest mall in the United States
The interior of Garden State Plaza megamall in Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey, the borough with the world's highest concentration of shopping malls
The interior structure of Mall of Tripla in Helsinki, Finland
The Burlington Arcade in London, with shop fronts inside (pictured), opened in 1819
A shopping center, shopping centre, also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof.
The interior of the Toronto Eaton Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a 201,320-square-metre (2,167,000 sq ft) super-regional shopping mall
Interior of the Galerie Vivienne in Paris, by Francois Jean Delannoy, 1823-1826
Bailian Xijiao Shopping Mall in Shanghai, at 109,000 square metres (1,170,000 sq ft) a super-regional shopping mall
A community shopping center in Klaukkala, Uusimaa, Finland
