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The Top 100 Selfiest Cities in the World Makati City, known as the financial center of the Philippines, can now boast another distinction: It is the Selfie Capital of the World. An examination of hundreds of thousands of selfies—the low-fi, self-shot photographs that are intensely popular among younger social media users—suggests that the city, part of metropolitan Manila and home to 500,000 people, produces more selfies per capita than any other city in the world. To investigate the geography of selfie-taking, TIME built a database of more than 400,000 Instagram photos tagged “selfie” that included geographic coordinates. In total, we ranked 459 cities to determine the selfiest places on earth. Fear not Manhattan and Miami, you’re up there. Methodology The photos were downloaded from the Instagram API in two sets of five days: from Jan. 28-Feb.2, 2014 and Mar. 3-7, 2014. Each day’s data consists of the 24-hour period from midnight to midnight to account for all time zones equally. During that time, 402,197 Instagram photos tagged “selfie” that included geographic coordinates. That only accounts for a fraction of all selfies uploaded during that time since the majority of photos do not include a location. Of this sample, 28 percent came from the United States. For every city in the world of at least 250,000 residents, we then counted the number of selfies taken within 5 miles and divided by the population of that city. 1. Makati City and Pasig, Philippines (258 selfie-takers per 100,000 people) 2. Manhattan, N.Y. (202 selfie-takers per 100,000 people) 3. Miami, FL | 155 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 4. Anaheim and Santa Ana, Calif. | 147 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 5. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia | 141 selfie- takers per 100,000 people 6. Tel Aviv, Israel | 139 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 7. Manchester, England | 114 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 8. Milan, Italy | 108 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 9. Cebu City, Philippines | 99 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 10. George Town, Malaysia | 95 selfie- takers per 100,000 people 11. San Francisco, US: 91 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 12. Oslo, NO: 89 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 13. Boston, US: 88 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 14. Newark, US: 84 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 15. Honolulu, US: 82 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 16. Baguio, PH: 82 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 17. Paris, FR: 80 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 18. Denpasar, ID: 75 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 19. Leeds, GB: 72 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 20. Las Vegas, US: 72 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 21. Kuala Lumpur, MY: 72 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 22. Firenze, IT: 69 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 23. Copenhagen, DK: 69 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 24. Helsinki, FI: 69 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 25. Washington, D. C., US: 66 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 26. Cardiff, GB: 66 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 27. Oakland, US: 64 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 28. Amsterdam, NL: 64 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 29. Belfast, GB: 61 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 30. Bologna, IT: 61 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 31. Liverpool, GB: 58 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 32. Portland, US: 56 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 33. Lisbon, PT: 56 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 34. Atlanta, US: 55 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 35. Riverside, US: 55 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 36. New Orleans, US: 54 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 37. Glasgow, GB: 54 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 38. Leicester, GB: 53 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 39. Auckland, NZ: 53 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 40. Monterrey, MX: 52 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 41. Seattle, US: 52 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 42. Doha, QA: 52 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 43. Yogyakarta, ID: 51 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 44. Mueang Nonthaburi, TH: 50 selfie- takers per 100,000 people 45. Coventry, GB: 50 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 46. Edinburgh, GB: 50 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 47. Malmoe, SE: 50 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 48. Bari, IT: 49 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 49. Bristol, GB: 49 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 50. Johor Bahru, MY: 48 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 51. Sheffield, GB: 47 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 52. Napoli, IT: 46 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 53. Singapore, SG: 46 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 54. Athens, GR: 46 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 55. Stoke-on-Trent, GB: 46 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 56. Stockholm, SE: 45 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 57. Minneapolis, US: 45 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 58. Brooklyn, US: 44 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 59. Quezon City, PH: 44 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 60. Pittsburgh, US: 42 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 61. Bradford, GB: 42 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 62. San Jose, CR: 41 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 63. Dubai, AE: 41 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 64. Goeteborg, SE: 39 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 65. Adapazari, TR: 39 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 66. Wolverhampton, GB: 39 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 67. Dublin, IE: 39 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 68. Barcelona, ES: 38 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 69. Rome, IT: 38 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 70. Utrecht, NL: 38 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 71. Panama, PA: 37 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 72. Iloilo, PH: 36 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 73. Thessaloniki, GR: 36 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 74. Hull, GB: 36 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 75. Tampa, US: 36 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 76. Sacramento, US: 35 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 77. Denver, US: 35 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 78. Belgrade, RS: 35 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 79. Zurich, CH: 35 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 80. Eskisehir, TR: 35 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 81. Victoria, CA: 34 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 82. San Diego, US: 34 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 83. Catania, IT: 33 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 84. Turin, IT: 33 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 85. Carapicuiba, BR: 33 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 86. Poznan, PL: 33 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 87. Abu Dhabi, AE: 33 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 88. Bandung, ID: 33 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 89. Borough of Bronx, US: 32 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 90. Austin, US: 32 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 91. San Jose, US: 32 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 92. Sharjah, AE: 32 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 93. London, GB: 32 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 94. Bakersfield, US: 31 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 95. Staten Island, US: 30 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 96. Vitoria, BR: 30 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 97. San Juan, PR: 30 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 98. Edmonton, CA: 30 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 99. Birmingham, GB: 30 selfie-takers per 100,000 people 100. Nice, FR: 30 selfie-takers per 100,000 people