<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="fUS" name="United States" 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="fUS01" name="Alabama" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS02" name="Alaska" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS04" name="Arizona" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS05" name="Arkansas" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS06" name="California" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS08" name="Colorado" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS09" name="Connecticut" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS10" name="Delaware" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS11" name="District of Columbia" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="proot" name="Federal lands" parent="fUS" scope="Land areas administered by US Federal agencies"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS12" name="Florida" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS13" name="Georgia" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS15" name="Hawaii" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS16" name="Idaho" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS17" name="Illinois" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS18" name="Indiana" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS19" name="Iowa" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS20" name="Kansas" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS21" name="Kentucky" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS22" name="Louisiana" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS23" name="Maine" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS24" name="Maryland" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS25" name="Massachusetts" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS26" name="Michigan" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS27" name="Minnesota" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS28" name="Mississippi" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS29" name="Missouri" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS30" name="Montana" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS31" name="Nebraska" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS32" name="Nevada" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS33" name="New Hampshire" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS34" name="New Jersey" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS35" name="New Mexico" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS36" name="New York" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS37" name="North Carolina" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS38" name="North Dakota" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS39" name="Ohio" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS40" name="Oklahoma" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS41" name="Oregon" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS42" name="Pennsylvania" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS44" name="Rhode Island" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS45" name="South Carolina" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS46" name="South Dakota" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS47" name="Tennessee" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS48" name="Texas" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="aroot" name="US Aquifers" parent="fUS" scope="Aquifers of the 48 conterminous United States, Hawaii, Puerto Ri"/><term thcode="1" code="hroot" name="US hydrologic units" parent="fUS" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="qroot" name="USGS Quadrangles" parent="fUS" scope="quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS49" name="Utah" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS50" name="Vermont" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS51" name="Virginia" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS53" name="Washington" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS54" name="West Virginia" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS55" name="Wisconsin" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS56" name="Wyoming" parent="fUS" scope="state"/></nt></descriptor>