Here is a generic method regardless of the level of the hierarchy.
SQL
-- DDL and sample data population, start
DECLARE @tbl table (
idGeo INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
GEO VARCHAR(64),
PARENTID INT
);
insert into @tbl (GEO, PARENTID) values
( 'EMEA', NULL),
( 'France', 1),
( 'mIDCAPSfRANCE', 2),
( 'Germany', 1),
( 'France exl midcaps', 2),
( 'Amercias', NULL),
( 'US', 6);
-- DDL and sample data population, end
--SELECT * FROM @tbl;
WITH cte AS
(
-- Anchor query
SELECT idGEO, GEO, ParentID, 1 AS [Level]
, CAST("https://stackoverflow.com/" + GEO AS VARCHAR(1000)) AS XPath
FROM @tbl
WHERE ParentID IS NULL
UNION ALL
-- Recursive query
SELECT t.idGEO, t.GEO, t.ParentID, cte.[Level] + 1 AS [Level]
, CAST(cte.[XPath] + "https://stackoverflow.com/" + t.GEO AS VARCHAR(1000)) AS [XPath]
FROM @tbl AS t
INNER JOIN cte ON t.ParentID = cte.idGEO
WHERE t.ParentID IS NOT NULL
)
SELECT idGEO
, REPLICATE(' ',[Level]-1) + GEO AS GEOHierarchy
, GEO, ParentID, [Level], [XPath]
FROM cte
ORDER BY XPath;
solved Custom hierarchy