Region name in the domain name

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Ankit Goyal: Having region name in the domain name helps to improve the ranking locally? Does the Domain name still have some value for local SEO? #localseo  ; #seo  ; #ranking  ;
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  Jim Munro: You have asked two questions for one poll, +Ankit Goyal ;:)
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  Manjunath M V: In future #Google Consider has a spam technique, for e.g. there are so many domain's already taking these benefits, Google + also ranks higher in local searches
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  Edwin Jonk: I assume you are asking about regional TLD like .eu or .asia. They are considered generic TLD like .com. ;
  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en