New York, Paris and London are most popular when it comes to Facebook 'likes' List published of the world's top 50 cities according to Facebook 'likes' Facebook's New York City page has more than 15 million likes London was ranked in third position with 8, 546, 175 likes Top ten has four North American cities and four European cities It's not often that Tehran is considered a more popular tourist destination that Rome. But that's the verdict according to Facebook users. The Iranian capital came in 32nd place in a list of 50 of the world's top cities. By contrast, Rome came in 35th place. New York City is the most popular city in the world according to Facebook 'likes' with 15, 363, 714 Each destination on the list has been ranked according to how many "likes" it has received on the social networking site's city guides pages. Facebook has created a profile page for each city around the world which it has linked to the country's Wikipedia page. It also includes information shared by other Facebook users offering tourist tips and recommendations, news stories and popular posts from around the Internet related to each city. Paris comes in second place with 9,144,939 likes in a list compiled by travel company Fastbooking.com London was placed in third position in the list of top 50 cities with 8, 546, 175 Facebook likes The top ten features four North American cities, two South American cities and four European cities. Los Angeles came in forth place with 7, 176, 469 Facebook likes The list, which has been compiled by travel company Fastbooking.com, places New York City in first place, with 15, 363, 714 "likes." Paris comes in second place with 9,144,939 likes, while London was placed in third position with 8, 546, 175 likes. The rest of the top ten was made up by Los Angeles with more than seven million likes, Sao Paulo with just under five million, Las Vegas and Istanbul with more than three million, Rio de Janeiro with just under three million, Barcelona with 2.6m and Atlanta in Georgia, USA, with 2.3m likes. Facebook has created a profile page for each city around the world which it has linked to the city's Wikipedia page. Sao Paulo's Facebook page was liked 4, 915, 960 putting it in fifth place Seoul in South Korea was Asia's most popular city, while Mumbai in India was next in 16th place Perhaps surprisingly, Tehran in Iran came in 32nd place in the list, higher than Milan, Rome and Munich Seoul in South Korea was ranked as the most popular city in Asia, while the next highest was Mumbai in India which came in 16th place. They were followed by Bangkok in Thailand in 19th place and Bandung in Indonesia in 21st place with 1.2m likes. London was the only UK city in the top 50, while the USA featured eight cities in the list, including Miami, Chicago, San Fransico and Houston in Texas. Berlin featured at the bottom of the list with 687, 726 likes, just behind Manila in the Philippines with 702,000 likes. 1 New York City 15, 363, 714 3 London 8. 4 Los Angeles 7, 176, 469 5 Sao Paulo 4, 915, 960 6 Las Vegas 3, 286, 174 7 Istanbul 3, 221, 451 8 Rio de Janeiro 2, 913, 718 9 Barcelona 2, 614, 534 18 Mexico City 1, 474, 332 20 San Francisco 1, 422, 610 22 Amsterdam 1, 158, 580 24 Buenos Aires 1, 222, 502 27 Lahore 1. 28 Kuala Lumpur 1, 032, 349 31 Melbourne 991, 159 36 Marseille 853, 999 37 Bangalore 837, 435 39 Casablanca 786, 783 41 Hyderabad 782, 147 44 Santiago 754, 767 45 Singapore 754, 543 46 Medellin 747, 091 Source: Fastbooking.com Facebook currently features more than 1.32 billion users. Many cities have now created their own official Facebook pages in a bid to try and promote tourist attractions and offer visitors information about what to see and do. However, many have not proved as popular as Facebook's own online guides to each city, which has seen users from around the world posting photographs and sharing YouTube clips with information relating to each destination.