The Biggest Parking Lots, Structures In The World Compared To Other Sizable Things

Parking lots. They take up a lot of useful space, can be confusing, and do little to add any sort of spice to our lives. Unfortunately, if we are going to continue our commitment to cars (especially here in North America), parking lots are just a very necessary evil.

Which brings us to this post. I wanted to know where the biggest parking lots in the world, but I needed a visual, as 10 pictures of gray buildings wouldn't be visually interesting. So to add some context to visualize just how large these parking behemoths are, I've found things, whether objects, places or other buildings in similar sizes.

So you're aware, my method for determining size was a simple one. I took the average size of a parking spot (9 ft x 18 ft = 162 sq. ft.) and multiplied that by the number of spaces these parking garages hold. I did not include aisles or other design elements.

• Parking Spaces: 8,100

• Approx. 1,312,200 sq. ft.

The Chrysler building, one of the largest structures in New York City, is just a tiny bit smaller than the DFW parking structure in our comparable square footage — coming in at just 1,196,958 sq. ft.

• Parking Spaces: 8,400

• Approx. 1,360,800 sq. ft.

We (Steve and I) did the math. If you take the square footage of a Jeep Gladiator's bed, you would need approximately 72,537 of them to fill DWI's parking lot.

• Parking Spaces: 9,000

• Approx. 1,458,000 sq. ft.

In 2021 Home Depot opened this massive distribution center in Maryland, and it's barely bigger than a parking lot in Toronto.

• Parking Spaces: 9,266

• Approx. 1,501,092 sq. ft.

• Parking Spaces: 10,000

• Approx. 1,620,000 sq. ft.

HGTV says that if you own a duck, you should allow for four square feet of floor space per bird. That means we would be able to house over 400,000 of them comfortably at Disneyland's parking lot.

• Parking Spaces: 10,200

• Approx. 1,652,400 sq. ft.

Walmart says a can of Spam is 2.2 inches x 4 inches. That means you could "park" 27,000,000 of those little blue tins at this Central Florida parking facility. Think of that smell.

• Parking Spaces: 11,000

• Approx. 1,782,000 sq. ft.

That's right. The average size of a Walmart is about 179,000 square feet. By our math, you can fit 10 of them inside Disney World's main parking lot, alone.

• Parking Spaces: 11,500

• Approx. 1,863,000 sq. ft.

This one fulfillment center has just as big of a footprint as DTW's McNamara Terminal's parking.

• Parking Spaces: 13,000

• Approx. 2,106,000 sq. ft.

• Parking Spaces: 20,000

• Approx. 3,240,000 sq. ft.

  If you had told me when I started this article that the biggest parking lot in the world was at a mall in Canada, I would have had a very hard time believing you. But, that's the way the world works. 20,000 spots for anyone and everyone, but if that's not enough there are 10,000 additional overflow spots also available.

Those 20,000 spots are enough to fit over 1,400 average American homes (at approx. 2,300-ish sq. ft. each) inside.