New Jersey vs America

New Jersey and America both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
New Jersey	Yes	No	No	No
America	Yes	No	No	No

New Jersey (noun)	America (noun)
a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies	North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
one of the British colonies that formed the United States, with capital Elizabethtown, Perth Amboy, or Burlington	North America and South America and Central America