<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="fUS27" name="Minnesota" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS" name="United States" parent="fLD10" scope="country"/><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 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name="Grant" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27053" name="Hennepin" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27055" name="Houston" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27057" name="Hubbard" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27059" name="Isanti" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27061" name="Itasca" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27063" name="Jackson" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27065" name="Kanabec" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27067" name="Kandiyohi" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27069" name="Kittson" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27071" name="Koochiching" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27073" name="Lac qui Parle" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27075" name="Lake" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" 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thcode="1" code="f27129" name="Renville" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27131" name="Rice" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27133" name="Rock" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27135" name="Roseau" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27137" name="Saint Louis" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27139" name="Scott" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27141" name="Sherburne" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27143" name="Sibley" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27145" name="Stearns" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27147" name="Steele" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27149" name="Stevens" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27151" name="Swift" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27153" name="Todd" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27155" name="Traverse" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27157" name="Wabasha" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27159" name="Wadena" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27161" name="Waseca" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27163" name="Washington" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27165" name="Watonwan" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27167" name="Wilkin" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27169" name="Winona" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27171" name="Wright" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f27173" name="Yellow Medicine" parent="fUS27" scope="county"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q47092" name="Ashland" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48096" name="Bemidji" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" 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