Asia Minor vs Asia

Asia Minor and Asia both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Asia Minor	Yes	No	No	No
Asia	Yes	No	No	No

Asia Minor (noun)	Asia (noun)
a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey	the nations of the Asian continent collectively
	the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations