How do I model a fairly static hierarchy - example state, county, township, zipcode

Our business is carved up into multiple districts, its 3 levels - and called the sales org
– sales area (north / south)
– region (within sales area)
– district (within region)

I can create hubs for each of these, and then a link that joins them altogether. so 3 hubs, one link table with 3 keys. effectivity satellite to track changes as reorgs do occur (ie add a new district to a region, etc).

but now i have a store who belongs to a district. cant create a link to a link. maybe a link the store hub to the lowest level of the hierarchy - the district hub? Can create another link with 4 keys, store, region, district, sales area. but that seems like a lot of duplication.

there will be other business processes that need to link to the sales org hierarchy as well (inventory, sales, etc).

thanks!

As reference data… not hubs, links and satellites

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