whereabouts vs location

whereabouts and location both are nouns.

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

As nouns, location is a hypernym of whereabouts; that is, location is a word with a broader meaning than whereabouts:

whereabouts (noun)	location (noun)
the general location where something is	a point or extent in space; a point or extent in space
	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