town vs Traverse City

town and Traverse City both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
town	Yes	No	No	No
Traverse City	Yes	No	No	No

town (noun)	Traverse City (noun)
the people living in a municipality smaller than a city	a town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Michigan
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
an administrative division of a county