Japanese Archipelago vs Ezo

Japanese Archipelago and Ezo both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Japanese Archipelago	Yes	No	No	No
Ezo	Yes	No	No	No

Japanese Archipelago (noun)	Ezo (noun)
a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean	the second largest of the four main islands of Japan; to the north of Honshu