Hanko is sometimes a misspelling of Hankou (汉口), China
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Hanko (IPA: /ˈhɑŋko/), or Hangö in Swedish, (Russian: Гангут), is a small bilingual port city on the south coast of Finland, 130 kilometers west of Helsinki.
Hanko was the port of choice for emigrants leaving Finland for a new life in North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The role of the Hanko naval base was replaced by Porkkala in the armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union of September 19, 1944.
The most secure forms of hanko are used for banking and real estate deals, while off-the-shelf varieties are used for everyday tasks such as signing for delivery of packages.
The first evidence of writing in Japan is a hanko dating from AD 57, made of solid gold and belonging to the Emperor.
The increasing ease with which modern technology allows hanko fraud is beginning to cause some concern that the system will not be able to survive for much longer.
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