Dawson vs Dawson City

Dawson and Dawson City both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Dawson	Yes	No	No	No
Dawson City	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Dawson and Dawson City are synonyms defined as:

Dawson and Dawson City: a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike

Dawson (noun)	Dawson City (noun)
a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike	a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike