Maffia vs gangland

Maffia and gangland both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Maffia	Yes	No	No	No
gangland	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, gangland is a hypernym of Maffia; that is, gangland is a word with a broader meaning than Maffia:

Maffia: a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century
gangland: underworld organizations

Other hypernyms of Maffia include gangdom, organized crime.

Maffia (noun)	gangland (noun)
a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia	underworld organizations
a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century