[Tuturial]Show all countries,regions and cities in sidebar

[osCanyon]

on a 'out of the box' install it is normal to Not show the region unless there are ads in the region.
at least this is what I have found, after adding a region its Not on the list until I post an ad

I've tried the code posted here with no luck on 3.0.2.

I just don't understand this part:

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View::newInstance()->_exportVariableToView('list_regions', Search::newInstance()->listRegions('%%%%', '>=', 'region_name ASC') ) ;
I have a lot of regions in the database, and in the main.php it only shows 4, and NONE of them have listings on.
How can I only show ones which have listings?

Thanks!