<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="fLD40" name="Europe" parent="fLD" scope="continent"/><bt><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><nt><term thcode="1" code="fAL" name="Albania" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fAN" name="Andorra" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fAU" name="Austria" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fBO" name="Belarus" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fBE" name="Belgium" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fBK" name="Bosnia and Herzegovina" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fBU" name="Bulgaria" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fHR" name="Croatia" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fEZ" name="Czech Republic" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fDA" name="Denmark" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fEN" name="Estonia" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fFI" name="Finland" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fFR" name="France" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fGM" name="Germany" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fGR" name="Greece" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fHU" name="Hungary" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fIC" name="Iceland" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fEI" name="Ireland" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fIT" name="Italy" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fLG" name="Latvia" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fLS" name="Liechtenstein" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fLH" name="Lithuania" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fLU" name="Luxembourg" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fMK" name="Macedonia" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fMT" name="Malta" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fMD" name="Moldova" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fMN" name="Monaco" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fMW" name="Montenegro" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fNL" name="Netherlands" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fNO" name="Norway" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fPL" name="Poland" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fPO" name="Portugal" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fRO" name="Romania" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fSR" name="Serbia" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fLO" name="Slovakia" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fSI" name="Slovenia" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fSP" name="Spain" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fSV" name="Svalbard" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fSW" name="Sweden" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fSZ" name="Switzerland" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fUP" name="Ukraine" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fUK" name="United Kingdom" parent="fLD40" scope="country"/></nt></descriptor>