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ArcGIS Tutorial - Glossary

A theme is a set of geographic features displayed in a view in ArcGIS. A theme represents a source of geographic data such as a shapefile, gridfile, or image data.  Each theme has its own legend displayed in the Table of Contents. A theme's legend controls how the theme is displayed on the view.

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Example: the PACounty_2002 theme as a view, legend, and data table.