Number of Shopping Malls (Malaysia, August 2024)

data visualization
Author

Zahier Nasrudin

Published

August 16, 2024

Introduction

We can all agree that Malaysia has a lot of shopping malls. But just how true is it? Let’s take a closer look at the number of malls in each state.

Background

  • The data for this analysis was extracted on August 16, 2024, using the Google API & Wikipedia
  • Note: Chains like Econsave, Giant, and Mydin are categorized as hypermarkets/supermarkets by Wikipedia authors and are therefore not included in the shopping mall list.

Analysis

Map

By State

  • Selangor tops the list with 82 shopping malls

  • Perlis has the lowest, with 0 😄

Bar Chart

Here’s the information in bar chart format:

The End

The dataset can be downloaded from my GitHub. As this is an open-source dataset, feel free to contribute or provide feedback regarding any missing or incorrect information.