<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="fOC45" name="Pacific Islands" parent="fOC40" scope="ocean or sea"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fOC40" name="Pacific" parent="fOC" scope="ocean or sea"/><term thcode="1" code="fOC" name="Oceans" parent="root" scope="ocean or sea"/><term thcode="1" code="root" name="Earth" scope="Common geographic areas focused on the US"/></bt><nt><term thcode="1" code="fCW" name="Cook Islands" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fFJ" name="Fiji" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fFP" name="French Polynesia" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fKR" name="Kiribati" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fRM" name="Marshall Islands" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fNR" name="Nauru" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fNC" name="New Caledonia" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fNE" name="Niue" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fNF" name="Norfolk Island" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fPS" name="Palau" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fPF" name="Paracel Islands" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fPC" name="Pitcairn Islands" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fWS" name="Samoa" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fBP" name="Solomon Islands" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fPG" name="Spratly Islands" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fTL" name="Tokelau" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fTN" name="Tonga" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fTV" name="Tuvalu" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fNH" name="Vanuatu" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fWF" name="Wallis and Futuna" parent="fOC45" scope="country"/></nt></descriptor>