HANGO  , a

port and sea-bathing resort situated on the promontory of Hangoudd, to the extreme south-west of Finland . Hango owes its commercial importance to the fact that it is practically the only winter ice-free port in Finland, and is thus of value both to the Finnish and the Russian sea-borne trade . When incorporated in 1874 it had only a few hundred inhabitants; in 1900 it had 2501 and it has now over six thousand (5986 in 1904) . It is connected by railway with Helsingfors and Tammerfors, and is the centre of the Finnish butter export, which now amounts to over £1,000,000 yearly . There is a considerable import of coal, cotton, iron and breadstuffs, the chief exports being butter, fish, timber and wood pulp . During the period of emigration, owing to political troubles with Russia, over 12,000 Finns sailed from Hango in a single year (1901), mostly for the United States and Canada . Hango now takes front rank as a fashionable watering-place, especially for wealthy Russians; having a dry climate and a fine strand .