Africa vs French Sudan

Africa and French Sudan both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Africa	Yes	No	No	No
French Sudan	Yes	No	No	No

Africa (noun)	French Sudan (noun)
the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean	a landlocked republic in northwestern Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960; Mali was a center of West African civilization for more than 4,000 years