Sampo is one of the main districts in the city center of

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 ...

Pirkanmaa Pirkanmaa (; ; ), also known as ''Tampere Region'' in government documents, is a region of Finland. It borders the regions of Satakunta, South Ostrobothnia, Central Finland, Päijät-Häme, Kanta-Häme and Southwest Finland. Most of the wate ...

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. So-called planning area of Sampo includes the statistical areas of

Kalevanrinne Kalevanrinne is a district of Tampere, Finland. It is located in the Sampo area between the districts of Kaleva and Järvensivu, bordering Liisankallio and Kalevanharju in the west, Hakametsä and Vuohenoja in the east. The city plan of Ka ...

Liisankallio Liisankallio is a district of Tampere, Finland. The district, formerly known as ''Tammelan vainio'' ("Tammela Field"), is located east of the Tammela and Tulli districts. To the north is the Petsamo district, to the east are Kaleva and Kaleva ...

Petsamo Petsamo may refer to: * Petsamo Province, a province of Finland from 1921 to 1922 * Petsamo, Tampere, a district in Tampere, Finland * Pechengsky District Pechengsky District (; ; ; ; ) is an administrative district (raion), one of the six in Mur ...

, Lappi,

Lapinniemi Lapinniemi () is a district in the northern part of Tampere, Finland. It is located on a peninsula formed on the shores of Lake Näsijärvi. Neighboring parts of the city are Petsamo, Lappi and Tampella. It is about a kilometer from the city cen ...

Kaleva Kaleva or Kalevi may refer to: * CWT Kaleva Travel, a travel management company based in Finland * Kalevi (mythology), the great king of Kainuu in Finnish, Karelian and Estonian mythology * ''Kaleva'' (wasp), a wasp genus in the subfamily Pteromal ...

, Järvensivu, Vuohenoja, Kauppi and

Kissanmaa Kissanmaa is a district in the eastern part of Tampere, Finland, along the Teiskontie street. It belongs to the subdivision of Sampo (district), Sampo, and it is located 3 kilometers from the Keskusta, Tampere, city center. Kissanmaa is surrounded ...

. Sampo is home to the Sampo School, a

primary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ...

with 1–9. classes, which forms a common school path with the Kissanmaa School when moving to the 7th grade. Sampo's school also has a Sairaalankatu office. The name "Sampo" refers to the mythological artifact

Sampo In Finnish mythology, the ''Sampo'' () is a magical device or object described in many different ways, constructed by the blacksmith and inventor Ilmarinen and which brings riches and good fortune to its holder, akin to the horn of plenty (corn ...

mentioned in the Finnish national epic, the ''

Kalevala The ''Kalevala'' () is a 19th-century compilation of epic poetry, compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling a story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory ...

''. A newspaper called ''Sampo'' was also published in Tampere in 1888.

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