<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="f23011" name="Kennebec" parent="fUS23" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS23" name="Maine" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><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" 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h01040002" name="Lower Androscoggin" parent="h010400" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h01030003" name="Lower Kennebec" parent="h010300" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072SEH3" name="Monmouth" parent="q45072SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45070SWE1" name="Palermo" parent="q45070SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45070SWA3" name="Purgatory" parent="q45070SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45070SWE2" name="Razorville" parent="q45070SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45070SWA1" name="Readfield" parent="q45070SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45070NWB4" name="Rome" parent="q45070NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45072NE" name="Rumford" parent="q45072" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45070NW" 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