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Hanko is situated in the western part of the Uusimaa region. The population of Hanko is approximately 8,000, while the sub-region has a population of approximately 40,000. It is the 121st most populous municipality in Finland. Hanko is located 130 kilometres (80 mi) west of Helsinki and 35 kilometres (22 mi) south-west of Ekenäs.
August Hanko (military personnel), German First World War flying ace; August Hanko (politician), Estonian politician; Hanko (stamp), a Japanese signature stamp; Hanko Sushi, a sushi restaurant chain founded in Hanko, Finland
The Hanko Peninsula (Finnish: Hankoniemi; Swedish: Hangö udd) is the southernmost point of mainland Finland. The soil is a sandy moraine, the last tip of the Salpausselkä ridge, and vegetation consists mainly of pine and low shrubs.
In Japan, seals in general are referred to as inkan or hanko . [12] Inkan is the most comprehensive term; hanko tends to refer to seals used on less important documents. The first evidence of writing in Japan is a hanko dating from AD 57, made of solid gold given to the ruler of Nakoku by Emperor Guangwu of Han , called King of Na gold seal ...
Hanko Naval Base was a short-lived Soviet naval base on the southern coast of Finland, operational for less than two years in the early 1940s. The base was located in the town of Hanko on the Hanko Peninsula , which is located 100 kilometers (62 mi) from Helsinki , the Finnish capital.
Hankou was the destination on the escape route of groups of missionaries fleeing the Boxers in the Northern provinces around 1900. The flight of some missionaries from the T'ai-yüan massacre in Shan-si is recorded in the work A Thousand Miles of Miracle in China, [7] by Reverend A E Glover, one of the fleeing missionaries.
The Battle of Hanko (also known as the Hanko front or the siege of Hanko) was a lengthy series of small battles fought on Hanko Peninsula during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union in the second half of 1941. As both sides were eager to avoid a major, costly ground battle, fighting took the form of trench warfare, with ...
With total annual international cargo throughput of 4.8 million tons in 2018, Hanko is the 6th biggest port in Finland by cargo tonnage. The total volume is fairly evenly split between exports and imports. [4] The Port of Hanko specialises in fast cargo liner traffic, with the major operators including Transfennica , Finnlines and DFDS. [5]