Makati, Dubbed as Selfie Capital of the World by TIME Magazine

Makati City is the financial center of the Philippines and it has been recently dubbed by TIME Magazine as the "Selfie Capital of the World."

 

TIME Magazine's Chris Wilson said that "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."

According to TIME, the most selfies are produce by the following ten cities from around the world:

1. Makati City & Pasig, Philippines: 258 selfie-takers per 100,000 people

2. Manhattan, New York: 202 selfie-takers per 100,000 people

3. Miami, Florida: 155 selfie-takers per 100,000 people

4. Anaheim & Santa Ana, California: 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

The TIME compiled 400,000 Instagram photos tagged with the term "selfie" that also included geographic coordinates from 459 cities. The study then revealed that Makati and Pasig cities have 258 selfie-takers per 100,000 people. 

Among the top ten cities is Cebu City, ranking 9th with 99 selfie-takers per 100,000 people. 

Source: abs-cbnnews.com