African country vs Algeria

African country and Algeria both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
African country	Yes	No	No	No
Algeria	Yes	No	No	No

African country (noun)	Algeria (noun)
any one of the countries occupying the African continent	a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s