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Helping people identify public places in images

A subreddit to help users identify unknown locations from a picture, drawing, painting, or from a textual description. Post titles MUST have descriptive information and context, as low effort posts will be removed. Please read the rules before submitting. Posts titled "Where Is This??" or similar may result in a ban.

129k subscribers463 posts / mo in Sep 2026380 authors / mosince 2011

r/whereisthis has 129k members (+21% over the last 12 months). It gets about 463 posts a month from 380 people. Top topics: Italian Landscapes, Location Guessing Games and France Landscapes and Cities.

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Size and growth

How r/whereisthis has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+21%in 12 months · +3.5% in 3 months · +0.8% in 1 month
Oct 2026129k
Growing129k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−31%vs Sep 2025 · −16% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026463
QuieterPeaked at 878 in Jan 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/whereisthis

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Italian Landscapes1.1%
  2. Location Guessing Games1.0%
  3. France Landscapes and Cities0.6%
  4. Cornwall and Southwest England0.6%
  5. English Villages and Forests0.6%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Wikimedia
  2. Discogs
  3. Flickr
  4. TikTok
  5. eBay

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research