trouble spot vs geographic area

trouble spot and geographic area both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
trouble spot	Yes	No	No	No
geographic area	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hypernyms of trouble spot include geographic region, geographical area, geographical region.

trouble spot (noun)	geographic area (noun)
a place of political unrest and potential violence	a demarcated area of the Earth
a place where trouble exists or occurs regularly