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New York is 2016's most Instagrammed city in the world
The Paris Louvre is the world's most Instagrammed museum
On mini-adventures at home or abroad, there’s one traveling companion few of us can bear to be apart from, and that’s our phone.
The sweet nothings we whisper to our buddy most, according to Instagram’s newly revealed list of the most popular travel hashtags of 2016, include #sunset, #wanderlust and #roadtrip. And the city with which we have the greatest love affair?
New York City, home of Clarendon-friendly yellow cabs, green street signs and glistening skyscrapers, is Instagram’s most geotagged city of 2016.
The Big Apple is also home to three of the world’s top ten most Instagrammed locations: Central Park, Times Square and Brooklyn Bridge.
King of bling
When it comes to ostentatious excess and saturation levels notched up to 11, Las Vegas is king of the bling thing.
The MGM Grand is the world’s most Instagrammed hotel, while the Cosmopolitan, Caesars Palace and Wynn all appear in the Top 10. The Las Vegas Strip is also the seventh most Instagrammed location in the world.
Europe has managed to claw back some territory from all-conquering America in the culture stakes. The Paris Louvre is the world’s most Instagrammed museum while London’s British Museum squeaked in at No. 9. But at the end of the day, what Instagram really loves is a theme park: Disney and Universal Studios were the most popular locations worldwide.
#pizza and #sushi
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