If you refer to the whereabouts of a particular person or thing, you mean the place where that person or thing may be found.
The police are anxious to hear from anyone who may know the whereabouts of the firearms.
警察急盼任何可能知道这批武器下落的人提供线索。
You use whereabouts in questions when you are asking precisely where something is.
'Whereabouts in France?'—'Normandy,' I said.
“在法国的什么地方?” “诺曼底,”我说。
Whereabouts are you living?
你居住的具体地点是哪里?