Tarawa vs Tarawa-Makin

Tarawa and Tarawa-Makin both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Tarawa	Yes	No	No	No
Tarawa-Makin	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Tarawa and Tarawa-Makin are synonyms defined as:

Tarawa and Tarawa-Makin: battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting

Other synonyms of Tarawa include Battle of Tarawa, Makin.

Tarawa (noun)	Tarawa-Makin (noun)
battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting	battles in World War II in the Pacific (November 1943); United States Marines took the islands from the Japanese after bitter fighting
national capital of Kiribati