HANGO, a growing port and sea-bathing resort situated on the promontory of Hangoudd, to the extreme south-west of Fin land, in 59° 46' N., 22° 5 7' E. Pop. (1925) 7,000. There are two powerful ice-breakers and the port is kept open all the winter, and the mole has been lengthened to Hogholmen, which the largest ships can enter. Warehouses and quays are under construction. The exports are butter, wood, pulp, paper, tar, game and skins, and the imports cotton, coal, sugar, coffee, wines and spirits, iron and textiles. It is connected by railway with Helsingfors and Tam merfors, and is the centre of the Finnish butter export. During the period of emigration, owing to political troubles with Russia, over 12,000 Finns sailed from Hanel in 1901.