surroundings vs geographic area

surroundings and geographic area both are nouns.

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

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

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

surroundings (noun)	geographic area (noun)
the area in which something exists or lives	a demarcated area of the Earth
the environmental condition