<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="f34035" name="Somerset" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS34" name="New Jersey" 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="p484" name="Belle Mead General Depot" parent="p23" scope="Army"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NED3" name="Bernardsville" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NED4" name="Bound Brook" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEE3" name="Chatham" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEB4" name="Flemington" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEC3" name="Gladstone" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1742" name="Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="h02030103" name="Hackensack-Passaic" parent="h020301" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SED2" name="Hightstown" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SEB1" name="Hopewell" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NED2" name="Mendham" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SED1" name="Monmouth Junction" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1335" name="Morristown National Historical Park" parent="p39" scope="National Historic Park"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SEE1" name="New Brunswick" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NE" name="Newark" parent="q41076" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEE4" name="Plainfield" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SEC2" name="Princeton" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h02030105" name="Raritan" parent="h020301" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076NEC4" name="Raritan" parent="q41076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SEC1" name="Rocky Hill" parent="q41076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076SE" name="Trenton" parent="q41076" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>