Ecuador vs South American country

Ecuador and South American country both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Ecuador	Yes	No	No	No
South American country	Yes	No	No	No

Ecuador (noun)	South American country (noun)
a republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the Andes	any one of the countries occupying the South American continent