For those who haven't yet seen it: LinkedIn now has metropolitan area location-based setup for their users also in Italy. So my profile today looks like:

And the Milan Area, Italy is there because of my location settings, ZIP Code= 20146 (Milan).
And I've looked at some other properly filled profiles, like the one of Antonello Russo, my old friend that now lives in Rome, and the Rome Area, Italy appears there:
... and to be absolutely sure that this feature works well :), I've checked the profile of a man-social-energyzer Lorenzo Starace, Milan-IN Member that I've never meet since he lives in Trieste. So the Trieste Area, Italy was also there.

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