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To answer a question like yours, you just need to ask yourself this:
Is the word "headquarters" an "it" or a "they"?
The word "headquarters" MUST refer to one place, by definition: Merriam
Webster's says that headquarters is "the administrative center of an
enterprise," and as far as I know, there can only be one center to something
(have you ever heard of a doughnut with two holes?).
So the word "headquarters" is referring to one thing. One thing is a
singular noun. This means that the original version of the sentence is
correct because it's just like asking, "Where is it?"
So "Where is your headquarters?" is grammatically correct.
--Genevieve
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