Northern Ireland’s beautiful scenery is proving to be a Giant success on Instagram.
Belfast is among the most-snapped cities in the UK on the photo-sharing site, with a hashtag rate of 2.8 million.
The Giant’s Causeway was the most popular attraction with more than 260,000 posts followed by the Mourne Mountains and Dark Hedges.
Titanic Belfast and Carrick-A-Rede rope bridge also scored highly in the study by Motif.
Instagrammer Amber Doig-Thorne shared advice for taking the perfect snap.
She said: “I make sure I know what type of picture I’d like to take and then will wait for the perfect moment to capture the scene.”
The most popular hashtags and the number of times they’ve been used:
1. #giantscauseway 261,214
2. #mournemountains 69,023
3. #darkhedges 53,769
4. #carrickarede 46,082
5. #titanicbelfast 33,353
6. #causewaycoastalroute 29,977
7. #dunlucecastle 26,264
8. #belfastcityhall 21,886
9. #lougherne 19,556
10. #stormont 19,236
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