<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="fLD50" name="Africa" 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="fAG" name="Algeria" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fAO" name="Angola" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fBN" name="Benin" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fBC" name="Botswana" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fUV" name="Burkina Faso" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fBY" name="Burundi" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fCM" name="Cameroon" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fCT" name="Central African Republic" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fCD" name="Chad" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fCF" name="Congo" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fCG" name="Congo (Democratic Republic of the)" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fIV" name="Cote D'Ivoire" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fDJ" name="Djibouti" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fEG" name="Egypt" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fEK" name="Equatorial Guinea" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fER" name="Eritrea" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fET" name="Ethiopia" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fGB" name="Gabon" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fGA" name="Gambia, The" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fGH" name="Ghana" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fGV" name="Guinea" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fPU" name="Guinea-Bissau" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fKE" name="Kenya" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fLT" name="Lesotho" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fLI" name="Liberia" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fLY" name="Libya" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fMA" name="Madagascar" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fMI" name="Malawi" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fML" name="Mali" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fMR" name="Mauritania" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fMO" name="Morocco" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fMZ" name="Mozambique" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fWA" name="Namibia" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fNG" name="Niger" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fNI" name="Nigeria" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fRW" name="Rwanda" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fSG" name="Senegal" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fSL" name="Sierra Leone" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fSO" name="Somalia" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fSF" name="South Africa" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fSU" name="Sudan" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fWZ" name="Swaziland" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fTZ" name="Tanzania" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fTO" name="Togo" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fTS" name="Tunisia" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fUG" name="Uganda" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fWI" name="Western Sahara" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fZA" name="Zambia" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fZI" name="Zimbabwe" parent="fLD50" scope="country"/></nt></descriptor>