<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="fCA08" name="Ontario" parent="fCA" scope="province"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fCA" name="Canada" 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 areas focused on the US"/></bt><nt><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.AL" name="Algoma" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.BN" name="Brant" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.BC" name="Bruce" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.CO" name="Cochrane" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.DF" name="Dufferin" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.DR" name="Durham" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.EL" name="Elgin" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.ES" name="Essex" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.FR" name="Frontenac" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.GR" name="Grey" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.HD" name="Haldimand" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.HB" name="Haliburton" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.HT" name="Halton" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.HW" name="Hamilton-Wentworth" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.HS" name="Hastings" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.HU" name="Huron" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.KR" name="Kenora" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.KT" name="Kent" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.LM" name="Lambton" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.LN" name="Lanark" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.LG" name="Leeds and Grenville" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.LA" name="Lennox and Addington" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.MA" name="Manitoulin" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.MI" name="Middlesex" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.MU" name="Muskoka" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.NG" name="Niagara" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.NP" name="Nipissing" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.NF" name="Norfolk" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.NU" name="Northumberland" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.OC" name="Ottawa-Carleton" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.OX" name="Oxford" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.PS" name="Parry Sound" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.PL" name="Peel" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.PT" name="Perth" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.PB" name="Peterborough" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.PR" name="Prescott and Russell" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.PE" name="Prince Edward" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.RR" name="Rainy River" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.RE" name="Renfrew" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.SC" name="Simcoe" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.SD" name="Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.SB" name="Sudbury" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.SU" name="Sudbury" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.TB" name="Thunder Bay" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.TI" name="Timiskaming" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.TO" name="Toronto" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.VI" name="Victoria" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.WT" name="Waterloo" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.WL" name="Wellington" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="fCA.ON.YO" name="York" parent="fCA08" scope="county"/></nt></descriptor>