geographic area vs region

geographic area and region both are nouns.

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

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

geographic area (noun)	region (noun)
a demarcated area of the Earth	a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
	a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
	the extended spatial location of something
	a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
	the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')