colony vs geographic region

colony and geographic region both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
colony	Yes	No	No	No
geographic region	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, geographic region is a hypernym of colony; that is, geographic region is a word with a broader meaning than colony:

Other hypernyms of colony include geographic area, geographical area, geographical region.

colony (noun)	geographic region (noun)
a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government	a demarcated area of the Earth
a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together
(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated