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Last updated: July 23, 2025
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Last updated: July 23, 2025
Most QR codes we see day to day are fairly small. Many are about the size of a postage stamp or smaller, though it’s not uncommon to see a fairly large one on a poster, flier, or even a billboard.
But how big can you make a QR code? How would someone go about making the world’s largest QR code? Where is the world’s largest QR code? A field? A building? The sky? The answers to these questions may surprise you!
In this piece I will go over 8 of the largest QR codes ever created, where they are, how they’re made, and what they promote. So let’s get started and learn about the world’s biggest QR codes!
At the time of me writing this piece (June 2025), the largest QR code ever produced is the Yuengling Stars and Stripes code found in Farmland Indiana. This code is made entirely out of farm grown crops and measures out to be about 1320 feet (402.34 Meters) by 1320 feet, or a quarter mile by a quarter mile.
The Yuengling code was made to promote their Stars and Stripes campaign in 2022, which was a celebration and honoring of America’s armed forces. Upon scanning the code, users were taken to a page where they can donate to help active duty soldiers and learn more about their lives.
The code no longer functions in 2025, but it is still the largest functional QR code ever made and has held the title since 2022.
Also in 2022, drone show producers Sky Elements teamed up with Microsoft and Paramount+ to create a dazzling drone show over Austin Texas promoting the upcoming Halo TV series on the streaming platform. The show featured drone recreations of iconic Halo imagery, including the Master Chief himself, the AI assistant Cortana, and the tank-like Warthog vehicle.
Near the end of the show, the audience watched as the drones rearranged to form a giant QR code in the sky. This code could be scanned, which took users to a website displaying a trailer for the series as well as a countdown timer to the premier. To this day, this is the largest sky based QR code ever produced.
The Halo series on Paramount+ has gone on to become one of the top most streamed sci-fi shows on Paramount+, having been renewed for a second season.
The record for largest human QR code, that being a code whose pieces are held up by real people, goes to the one created by Chinese company Taiping Life Insurance in November 2919. This code is made by having over 3000 volunteers, all employees or family of employees, hold up black and white plates that come together to form a QR code.
Scanning this code would lead users to the company’s official website. While this was the largest human QR code in 2019, the record has since been broken by the Zhengzhou University, also in China.
In 2017, residents of the Chinese village Xilinshui set up a massive 744 foot (226.77 meters) long tree maze made up primarily of Chinese Junipers. From ground level it appears no different from any other hedge or tree maze, but when viewed from above, the maze becomes a giant, scannable QR code.
This code in particular links to the village’s WeChat account, which is a popular social media platform in the country. Xilinshui in particular is considered to be one of China’s most beautiful and traveled to villages in the region.
Similar to the tree maze code in Xilinshui, in 2012 the Kraay Family Farm in Alberta Canada created what was at the time the world's largest QR code into a 556 foot by 558 foot corn maze. The maze was part of the farm’s tradition to create a massive and artistically impressive corn maze each year, with other mazes paying tribute to the Canadian Rodeo, the invention of Insulin, and multiple charitable organizations.
In 2011, the largest QR code on earth was painted atop the Southern Resources Waste Management Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. This code measures at 100 feet by 100 feet, with each pixel being painted on a 10 foot by 10 foot square.
This code was the brainchild of Hackerspace, a non profit organization dedicated to providing locals interested in technology, engineering, and other activities with the resources they need.
Toronto, Canada housed the world's largest QR code in June of 2012, with a code made of black and white plates measuring to be over 1,300 square feet (36’ by 36’) . This code was set up by Youth Unlimited, a non-profit dedicated to public works and community activities.
The record for the largest QR code to be made of humans was set in December of 2023 by students at Zhengzhou University in Henan, China. This code was created using over 2,000 student volunteers holding up orange and white plates to create a code measuring over 167’ by 167’.
QR codes can be big, REALLY big. They can span rooftops, tree mazes, corn mazes, be painted on the ground or made of people. If someone really wanted to and had the resources, they could make one many miles long, though that would be very difficult to scan.
These 8 codes truly show off not only how big QR codes can be, but how creative people can be with them. If you’re thinking about making a giant QR code, or any sized code in general, you can create one right now with the free tools available from QR Code Developer. Get started today to see just how easy it is!