"Lille" is a city name.
"Lille dans le nord" means "Lille, in the north (of France)
If this is just based on hearing, what may have actually been said is "L'île dans de le nord de la France" in which case it means "The island in the north of France".
Université Lille Nord de France was created in 1854.
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Lille is a regional capital, for the region "nord" (North). The national capital is Paris.
Lille is located in northern France near the Belgian border
Ovidie was born on August 25, 1980, in Lille, Nord, France.
Francis Mischkind was born in 1936, in Lille, Nord, France.
Elodie Monlibert was born in 1973, in Lille, Nord, France.
Lille (French pronunciation: [lil] ( listen); Dutch: Rijsel) is a city in northern France. It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium. It is the capital of the Nord-Pas de Calais regionand the prefecture of the Nord department.
Aline Boone was born on January 24, 1964, in Lille, Nord, France.
Pierre Krieg was born on January 18, 1922, in Lille, Nord, France.
Yvonne Furneaux was born on May 11, 1928, in Lille, Nord, France.
Eric Duvivier was born on December 26, 1928, in Lille, Nord, France.