Colony vs geographical area

Colony and geographical area both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Colony	Yes	No	No	No
geographical area	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, geographical area is a hypernym of Colony; that is, geographical area is a word with a broader meaning than Colony:

Colony: one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
geographical area: a demarcated area of the Earth

Other hypernyms of Colony include geographic area, geographic region, geographical region.

Colony (noun)	geographical area (noun)
one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States	a demarcated area of the Earth