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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Megan Doherty

Hashtag Canberra, baby: why the capital is picture perfect

Pretty as a picture, this place. Picture: Shutterstock

Canberra is the 11th most Instagrammable national capital in the world, according to a new, very important, study.

Car hire company StressFreeCarRental.com looked at which capital cities were the most popular by using their hashtags to see how many posts each had racked up on Instagram.

London came in first with 154 million posts. Canberra finished 11th with 3.1 million posts.

The study found Canberra may be the national capital but was dwarfed in the Instagram stakes by Sydney and Melbourne, which both had about 35 million posts each.

Here are the most Instagrammable capital cities:

  1. London, UK - 154m posts
  2. Rome, Italy - 151m posts
  3. Paris, France, 134m posts
  4. Berlin, Germany - 50.1m posts
  5. Madrid, Spain - 46m posts
  6. Amsterdam, Netherlands - 34.4m posts
  7. Stockholm Sweden - 14m posts
  8. Washington, USA - 13.6 posts
  9. Cape Town, Africa - 12.8 posts
  10. Lisbon, Portugal - 10.5m posts
  11. Canberra, Australia - 3.1m posts

The popular #London posts ranged from iconic landmarks such as the London Eye and Big Ben to fun selfies in red telephone boxes and glamorous pictures in restaurants.

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