What this error want to say? Can't we use return without function?

[Shivlal Sharma]

N = int(input("enter a positive integer:"))
coun = 1
while (N > 0):
    coun = coun * N
    N = N - 1
return coun
nice = ntime(N)
print(nice)


error: return outside of the function
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