Dawson City vs Dawson

Dawson City and Dawson both are nouns.

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

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

Dawson City and Dawson: 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 City (noun)	Dawson (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