This is London Calling, We're the Selfie Capital of the World

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By Brian Koerber2014-05-21 03:58:03 UTC

You can't walk around a big city without seeing someone snapping a selfie.

The selfie trend gained increasing popularity over the last few years with front-facing cameras and Instagram filters that make anyone look good. It's dominated social media, influenced pop culture and even reached space.

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A quick search of the hashtag #selfie on Instagram delivers more than 116 million results. We might all be a little obsessed.

Image: @Instagram on Instagram

Suggestme.com took a closer look at 6.3 million selfie posts across multiple social media platforms and determined that London is the most popular city to take a selfie, raking in 14.05% of the analyzed posts.

New York ranks as the second most popular city with 11.62% of the posts, Times Square and the Statue of Liberty being the most popular locations, respectively.

The following chart, created by statistics company Statista, shows the 10 most popular cities to take a selfie in.

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