prefecture vs situation

prefecture and situation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
prefecture	Yes	No	No	No
situation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, situation is a hypernym of prefecture; that is, situation is a word with a broader meaning than prefecture:

Other hypernyms of prefecture include berth, office, place, position, post.

prefecture (noun)	situation (noun)
the office of prefect	a job in an organization
the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire)	physical position in relation to the surroundings
	the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
	a condition or position in which you find yourself
	a complex or critical or unusual difficulty