state vs Marshall Islands

state and Marshall Islands both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
state	Yes	No	Yes	No
Marshall Islands	Yes	No	No	No

state (noun)	Marshall Islands (noun)
the way something is with respect to its main attributes	a republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands
a politically organized body of people under a single government	a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia
the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
the territory occupied by a nation
the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
a state of depression or agitation
(chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)

state (verb)	Marshall Islands (verb)
express in words
put before
indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.