Maluku Islands vs Dutch East Indies

Maluku Islands and Dutch East Indies both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Maluku Islands	Yes	No	No	No
Dutch East Indies	Yes	No	No	No

Maluku Islands (noun)	Dutch East Indies (noun)
a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands	a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions