narco-state vs geographic area

narco-state and geographic area both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
narco-state	Yes	No	No	No
geographic area	Yes	No	No	No

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

narco-state: an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent
geographic area: a demarcated area of the Earth

Other hypernyms of narco-state include geographic region, geographical area, geographical region.

narco-state (noun)	geographic area (noun)
an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent	a demarcated area of the Earth