Hankkio is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

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, located in the eastern part of the city. The neighboring parts of the city are

Messukylä 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), Messukylä was the ...

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 townh ...

Linnainmaa Linnainmaa is a district of about 6,000 inhabitants in the eastern part of Tampere, Finland, about six kilometers from the Keskusta, Tampere, city center. Tampere's eastern bypass borders Linnainmaa in the west, and Finnish national road 12, High ...

, 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 Viiala is a former municipality of Finland. On 1 January 2007, it w ...

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 Viiala is a former municipality of Finland. On 1 January 2007, it was consolidated with Toijala to form the town of Akaa. Viiala is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality had a populatio ...

. 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 has historically been 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 ...

railway. The district is named after Hankkio

farm A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used fo ...

, which was the former croft of the Messukylä's

rectory A clergy house is the residence, or former residence, of one or more priests or ministers of a given religion, serving as both a home and a base for the occupant's ministry. Residences of this type can have a variety of names, such as manse, p ...

. At one time there was a commercial

garden A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The single feature identifying even the wildest wild garden is ''control''. The garden can incorporate bot ...

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., in ...

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

residential area A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas. Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family residen ...

.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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