<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="f37187" name="Washington" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS37" name="North Carolina" 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="h03010205" name="Albemarle" parent="h030102" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q36078NEF1" name="Columbia West" parent="q36078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36078NEE2" name="Creswell" parent="q36078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36078NEF2" name="Creswell SE" parent="q36078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36078NEB3" name="Hoke" parent="q36078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36078NEE1" name="Leonards Point" parent="q36078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03010107" name="Lower Roanoke" parent="h030101" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q36078NEE3" name="New Lake NW" parent="q36078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03020104" name="Pamlico" parent="h030201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q36078NEC3" name="Pike Road" parent="q36078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36078NE" name="Plymouth" parent="q36078" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36078NEC2" name="Plymouth East" parent="q36078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36078NEB2" name="Plymouth West" parent="q36078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1918" name="Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q36078NED3" name="Pungo Lake" parent="q36078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36078NED1" name="Roper North" parent="q36078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36078NED2" name="Roper South" parent="q36078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36078NEC1" name="Westover" parent="q36078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>