<descriptor thcode="1"><thesaurus thcode="1" name="Common geographic areas" scope="Names and identifiers of commonly-known geographic areas including oceans, continents, countries, states and provinces in North America, counties in the United States, USGS map quadrangles, and hydrologic units, nested and cross-referenced by overlap." creator="U.S. Geological Survey" rights="Public domain" edition="1.0" date="2002-03-21" codetype="alpha" prefix="geo" uri="http://www.usgs.gov/science/CommonGeographicAreas" tblname="geo" nonpref="geonp" relterm="geort" root_code="root" contact="pschweitzer"><category><term thcode="25" code="13" name="transitive" parent="12" scope="Narrower terms have an &quot;is a&quot; relationship with their broader terms, and generally can be described as part-of, type-of, or instance-of the broader term."/><term thcode="25" code="30" name="ambiguous labels" parent="26" scope="A given preferred label may be used for more than one concept in the thesaurus. A concept must be specified using its unique identifier (code). This may occur in the names of places or people."/><term thcode="25" code="4" name="place" parent="2" scope="Terms indicate extent in space, typically by reference as the names of geographic areas known from information that is stored elsewhere."/><term thcode="25" code="16" name="hierarchical" parent="11" scope="Substantive broader-narrower relationships exist among the terms."/><term thcode="25" code="13" name="transitive" parent="12" scope="Narrower terms have an &quot;is a&quot; relationship with their broader terms, and generally can be described as part-of, type-of, or instance-of the broader term."/><term thcode="25" code="30" name="ambiguous labels" parent="26" scope="A given preferred label may be used for more than one concept in the thesaurus. A concept must be specified using its unique identifier (code). This may occur in the names of places or people."/><term thcode="25" code="4" name="place" parent="2" scope="Terms indicate extent in space, typically by reference as the names of geographic areas known from information that is stored elsewhere."/><term thcode="25" code="16" name="hierarchical" parent="11" scope="Substantive broader-narrower relationships exist among the terms."/></category><altlabel><altlabel>Augmented FIPS 10-4 and FIPS 6-4</altlabel><altlabel>Augmented FIPS 10-4 and FIPS 6-4</altlabel><altlabel>CommonGeographicAreas</altlabel><altlabel>CommonGeographicAreas</altlabel></altlabel></thesaurus><term thcode="1" code="f23019" name="Penobscot" parent="fUS23" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS23" name="Maine" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS" name="United States" parent="fLD10" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fLD10" name="North America" parent="fLD" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="fLD" name="Land" parent="root" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="root" name="Earth" scope="Common geographic areas focused on the US"/></bt><rt><term thcode="1" code="h01010004" name="Aroostook" parent="h010100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45070NE" name="Bangor" parent="q45070" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45070NEB2" name="Bangor" parent="q45070NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070NEE2" name="Benedicta" parent="q46070NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070SEH2" name="Bottle Lake" parent="q46070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070SEH1" name="Bowers Mountain" parent="q46070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47070SEC4" name="Bowlin Brook" parent="q47070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070SEA4" name="Bradford" parent="q46070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070SEF4" name="Brandy 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name="East Winn" parent="q46070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070SEB1" name="Endless Lake" parent="q46070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070SWG4" name="Garland" parent="q46070SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47070SEC2" name="Grand Lake Seboeis" parent="q47070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45070NEF1" name="Great Pond" parent="q45070NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45070NED3" name="Green Lake" parent="q45070NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47070SEE3" name="Green Mountain" parent="q47070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070SEC4" name="Greenbush" parent="q46070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070SEE4" name="Greenfield" parent="q46070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45070NEB3" name="Hampden" parent="q45070NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070SEB2" name="Hardy Pond" parent="q46070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47070SED3" name="Hay Brook Mountain" parent="q47070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47070SEC3" name="Hay Lake" parent="q47070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45070NEA2" name="Hermon" parent="q45070NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45070NEE2" name="Hopkins Pond" parent="q45070NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070SEC3" name="Howland" parent="q46070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070NEB1" name="Katahdin Lake" parent="q46070NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45070NEA1" name="Kenduskeag" parent="q45070NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070NEG4" name="Kingman" parent="q46070NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term 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1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47070SEB2" name="Millinocket Lake East" parent="q47070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070SEA3" name="Milo South" parent="q46070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47070SEE4" name="Mount Chase" parent="q47070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45070NWF2" name="Newport" parent="q45070NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070SED1" name="Nine Meadow Ridge" parent="q46070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070NEC4" name="Nollesemic Lake" parent="q46070NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070NEB3" name="Norcross" parent="q46070NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47070SE" name="Oakfield" parent="q47070" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46070SED4" name="Olamon" parent="q46070SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" 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