<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="fMX" name="Mexico" parent="fLD10" scope="country"/><bt><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><nt><term thcode="1" code="fMX01" name="Aguascalientes" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX02" name="Baja California" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX03" name="Baja California Sur" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX04" name="Campeche" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX05" name="Chiapas" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX06" name="Chihuahua" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX07" name="Coahuila de Zaragoza" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX08" name="Colima" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX09" name="Distrito Federal" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX10" name="Durango" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX11" name="Guanajuato" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX12" name="Guerrero" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX13" name="Hidalgo" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX14" name="Jalisco" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX15" name="Mexico" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX16" name="Michoacan de Ocampo" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX17" name="Morelos" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX18" name="Nayarit" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX19" name="Nuevo Leon" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX20" name="Oaxaca" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX21" name="Puebla" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX22" name="Queretaro de Arteaga" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX23" name="Quintana Roo" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX24" name="San Luis Potosi" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX25" name="Sinaloa" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX26" name="Sonora" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX27" name="Tabasco" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX28" name="Tamaulipas" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX29" name="Tlaxcala" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX30" name="Veracruz-Llave" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX31" name="Yucatan" parent="fMX" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fMX32" name="Zacatecas" parent="fMX" scope="state"/></nt></descriptor>