Hankkio is a district in Tampere, Finland, located in the eastern part of the city. The neighboring parts of the city are

Messukylä Messukylä ( sv, Messukylä, also ) is a former municipality of Finland which was annexed by the city of Tampere in 1947. The medieval stone church (built c. 1540) in Messukylä is the oldest building in Tampere. During the Civil War (1918), Mess ...

Ristinarkku Ristinarkku () is a district in Tampere, Finland. The district also includes the Janka's residential area. There are a school and several retail stores in the area. The area is close to the city center and has apartment buildings as well as townhou ...

Linnainmaa Linnainmaa is a district of about 6,000 inhabitants in the eastern part of Tampere, Finland, about six kilometers from the city center. Tampere's eastern bypass borders Linnainmaa in the west, and Highway 12 in the north. The building stock of Li ...

, Vehmainen,

Haihara Haihara () is a small district in Tampere, Finland, located about seven kilometers from the city center. Haihara is bordered on the south by Kaukajärvi, on the west by Viiala and on the north by Hankkio. In 2014, Haihara had 199 inhabitants. Af ...

Kaukajärvi Kaukajärvi is a Finnish lake in Pirkanmaa (also known as the Tampere Region). The lake is long, wide and covers an area of . Its average depth is and the maximum depth has been measured as . The municipalities of Tampere and Kangasala adjoin ...

and Viiala. The Hankkio district is bordered on the south by the Kangasalantie road and on the north by the Tampere–

Haapamäki Haapamäki is a village in the municipality of Keuruu, Finland. It is historically an important meeting point of major railway lines, which converge at Haapamäki railway station. It is from Haapamäki to the center of Keuruu and to the city of ...

railway. The district is named after Hankkio farm, which was the former

croft Croft may refer to: Occupations * Croft (land), a small area of land, often with a crofter's dwelling * Crofting, small-scale food production * Bleachfield, an open space used for the bleaching of fabric, also called a croft Locations In the Uni ...

of the Messukylä's

rectory A clergy house is the residence, or former residence, of one or more priests or ministers of religion. Residences of this type can have a variety of names, such as manse, parsonage, rectory or vicarage. Function A clergy house is typically ow ...

. At one time there was a commercial garden on the farm. Hankkio moved to the city of Tampere in connection with the Messukylä

municipal consolidation A merger, consolidation or amalgamation, in a political or administrative sense, is the combination of two or more political or administrative entities, such as municipalities (in other words cities, towns, etc.), counties, districts, etc., int ...

at the beginning of 1947. The district was zoned in 1960 as an

industrial Industrial may refer to: Industry * Industrial archaeology, the study of the history of the industry * Industrial engineering, engineering dealing with the optimization of complex industrial processes or systems * Industrial city, a city dominate ...

and residential area.Maija Louhivaara: ''Tampereen kadunnimet''. Tampereen museoiden julkaisuja 51, 1999, Tampere. ISBN 951-609-105-9. (in Finnish) Tampere's eastern bypass, completed in the 1990s, split the districtTampereen itäisen ohikulkutien sosioekonomiset vaikutukset
- ''Tielaitos'', 59/1994. (in Finnish) and cut off Hankkionkatu, renaming parts of the Etu-Hankkion katu and Keski-Hankkion katu streets.

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