Colorado Plateau vs Colorado

Colorado Plateau and Colorado both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Colorado Plateau	Yes	No	No	No
Colorado	Yes	No	No	No

Colorado Plateau (noun)	Colorado (noun)
a large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner	a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains
	an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States
	a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico