Persia vs Asia

Persia and Asia both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Persia	Yes	No	No	No
Asia	Yes	No	No	No

Persia (noun)	Asia (noun)
a theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil	the nations of the Asian continent collectively
an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC	the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations