Avelin is a town and commune in the Nord département, in northern France. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. Nord (North is a department in the far north of France. It is the country's most populated department In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. It is 10 km south of the centre of Lille. Lille (lil Rijsel is a city in northern France. It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest Metropolitan area in the country The city's name is of Saxon origin.
A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system.