<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="q39078NE" name="Washington East" parent="q39078" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q39078" name="Washington" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="qroot" name="USGS Quadrangles" parent="fUS" scope="quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS" name="United States" parent="fLD10" 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parent="q39078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39078NEC3" name="Lower Marlboro" parent="q39078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39078NED3" name="North Beach" parent="q39078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39078NEG3" name="Oxford" parent="q39078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39078NEA3" name="Piscataway" parent="q39078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39078NED4" name="Prince Frederick" parent="q39078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39078NEG1" name="Queenstown" parent="q39078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39078NEG2" name="Saint Michaels" parent="q39078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39078NED1" name="South River" parent="q39078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39078NEF3" name="Tilghman" parent="q39078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39078NEH3" name="Trappe" parent="q39078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39078NEB2" name="Upper Marlboro" parent="q39078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39078NEA1" name="Washington East" parent="q39078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39078NEH1" name="Wye Mills" parent="q39078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f24003" name="Anne Arundel" parent="fUS24" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f24009" name="Calvert" parent="fUS24" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f24011" name="Caroline" parent="fUS24" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f24017" name="Charles" parent="fUS24" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS11" name="District of Columbia" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="f24019" name="Dorchester" parent="fUS24" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f24031" name="Montgomery" parent="fUS24" 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