burg vs town

burg and town both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
burg	Yes	No	No	No
town	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, town is a hypernym of burg; that is, town is a word with a broader meaning than burg:

burg (noun)	town (noun)
colloquial American term for a town	the people living in a municipality smaller than a city
	an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
	an administrative division of a county