Did you know that Surry Hills has earned a new honour as the most Instagrammable suburb in Australia and the 11th most Instagrammable neighbourhood among 50 locations all over the world?
UK real estate agency Savoy Stewart ranked the world’s most popular places on the photo-sharing social site based on specific hashtags. The company also look into the most famous places in the world from Timeout, Complex and Forbes to narrow the choices down to 50 places. These places were then entered as hashtags on Instagram.
Wynwood in Miami, Florida, a neighbourhood splashed with awe-inspiring artistic graffiti and vibrant nightlife led the ranking with 5.2 million photos tagged.
However, Surry Hills’ numbers were also high up on the list with these hashtags: #surryhillssydney – 589,825, #surryhillslife – 3,962, and #surryhillssydney – 12,142.
Yarraville, in Melbourne’s inner city and has always been renowned for its architecture and quality of life, takes the second most Instagrammable Australian suburb and the 19th among 50 with 228,505 for #yarraville and 1,346 for #yarravillelife.
In the mid-1800s, Surry Hills took four decades to transform into a village precinct and it has been shifting ever since. From desirable to run-down, to up-and-coming and now, the happening place-to-be. In recent years, the culture and demographic of Surry Hills has attracted younger professionals and creative hipsters.
The Top 50 ranking of the World’s Most Instagrammable Neighbourhoods:
| 1. Wynwood (Miami) 2. Shinjuku (Tokyo) 3. Astoria (New York) 4. Pretoria East (Tshwane) 5. Silver Lake (Los Angeles) 7. Champs-Élysées (Paris) 8. Hongdae (Seoul) 9. Chefchaouen (Chefchaouen) 10. Brera (Milan) 11. Surry Hills (Sydney) 12. Nakameguro (Tokyo) 13. Peckham (London) 14. Arnavutköy (Istanbul) 15. Vesterbro (Copenhagen) 16. Thonglor (Bangkok) 17. Business Bay (Downtown Dubai) 18. Lombard Street (San Francisco) 19. Yarraville (Melbourne) 20. Old Havana (Ciudad de La Habana) 21. Kallio (Helsinki) 22. Lijiang (Yunnan Province) 23. Kolonaki (Athens) 24. Narvarte (Mexico City) 25. Centrum (Warsaw) | 26. Longyearbyen (Spitsbergen Island) 27. Maboneng (Johannesburg) 28. Tiong Bahru (Bukit Merah) 29. Corktown (Detroit) 30. The Philosopher’s Path (Kyoto) 31. Sham Shui Po (Kowloon) 32. Porta Venezia (Milan) 33. Alvalade (Lisbon) 34. Water Street (Brooklyn) 35. The Shambles (York) 36. Ladbroke Grove (London) 37. Mariahilfer-Strasse (Vienna) 38. Setenil de las Bodegas (Cádiz) 39. Gemmayze (Beirut) 40. Sinsa-dong (Seoul) 41. Stoneybatter (Dublin) 42. Zhoushan (Province of Zhejiang) 43. Zeeburg (North Holland) 44. Verdun (Quebec) 45. Historic Filipinotown (Los Angeles) 46. La Boca (Buenos Aires) 47. Rua do Bom Jesus (Recife Antigo 48. Gongguan (Zhongzheng and Daan Districts) 49. Taman Paramount (Selangor) 50. Onikan (Lagos) |
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