<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="fUS29" name="Missouri" 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="Pemiscot" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29157" name="Perry" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29159" name="Pettis" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29161" name="Phelps" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29163" name="Pike" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29165" name="Platte" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29167" name="Polk" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29169" name="Pulaski" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29171" name="Putnam" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29173" name="Ralls" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29175" name="Randolph" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29177" name="Ray" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29179" name="Reynolds" parent="fUS29" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f29181" name="Ripley" 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