Berthen is a village and commune in the Nord département of northern France. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. The following is a list of the 652 communes of the Nord département, in France. 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 2 km from the Belgian border, and 5 km north of Bailleul. Bailleul ( Belle in Dutch) is a small commune of the Nord département, in France, located in French Flanders