Virginia Beach ranks 11th most Instagrammable in U.S., according to research

A recent study ranked Virginia Beach just one spot out of the top 10 most Instagrammable beaches in the United States, according to SwimOutlet.

The study analyzed the number of hashtags associated with 346 beaches across America to see which had the most posts.

Beaches were selected using TripAdvisor and OpenAI, SwimOutlet said.

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The Virginia Beach Hashtag had over 2.5 million posts associated with it, placing it in the 11th spot.

The top three were all taken by Florida beaches with Miami Beach taking first place at over 16.5 million hashtags.

Overall America's beaches had a total of 91.6 million Instagram hashtags and counting.

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