Ilseng is a village in the municipality of Stange

Stange

is a municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hedmarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stangebyen.-Name:...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. Its population (2005) is 876, of which 22 people live within the border of the neighboring municipality Hamar

Hamar

is a town and municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hedmarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Hamar. The municipality of Hamar was separated from Vang as a town and municipality of its own in 1849...

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Its railway station is served by Rørosbanen

Rørosbanen

The Røros Line is a long railway line in Norway running between the towns of Hamar and Støren via Elverum and Røros. It connects to the Dovre Line at Hamar to Oslo and at Støren to Trondheim. The narrow gauge line was opened in 1877, running between Hamar and Trondheim, a total of...

, and is the first stop after Hamar.

Ilseng is also the site of Ilseng Prison. Norway's drunk driving law is among the toughest in the world, with a mandatory 3 week prison sentence for first-time offenders, who serve their sentence at Ilseng prison if they are men (women go to another facility). "Vacationing in Costa da Ilseng" is a euphemism for serving such a sentence.