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Meet the year's most-Instagrammed locations

Locations in New York, California and Thailand lead the way.

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The most popular places on Instagram in 2012.
The most popular places on Instagram in 2012. Instagram

The No. 1 place for posting photos to Instagram in 2012 has been revealed -- and somehow, it isn't a coffeeshop known for its creative latte-foam art.

The most-photographed location this year was Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport, with more 100,000 photos taken there in the last year, Instagram said in a blog post.

Rounding out the top 10:

  1. Siam Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand
  2. Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California
  3. Times Square in New York City
  4. AT&T Park in San Francisco
  5. Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
  6. Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles
  7. Eiffel Tower in Paris
  8. Staples Center in Los Angeles
  9. Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles

For galleries of all the most-Instagrammed locations, check out the company's blog post.