location vs whereabouts

location and whereabouts both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
location	Yes	No	No	No
whereabouts	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, whereabouts is a hyponym of location; that is, whereabouts is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than location:

location (noun)	whereabouts (noun)
a point or extent in space; a point or extent in space	the general location where something is
a determination of the place where something is
the act of putting something in a certain place
a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made