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Mankkaa

Mankkaa (Finnish) or Mankans (Swedish) is a suburb of Espoo, located between Tapiola and Kauniainen, with a population of 8,468 (2023), of which 555 speak Swedish as a first language (2023).

Mankkaa
Mankkaa · Erkki Voutilainen
The place

Mankkaa (Finnish) or Mankans (Swedish) is a suburb of Espoo, located between Tapiola and Kauniainen, with a population of 8,468 (2023), of which 555 speak Swedish as a first language (2023). Most of Mankkaa falls under the postal code 02180, with 02630 being the code of the areas situated near the Helsinki-Turku freeway in the north. The area under postal code 02180 has one of the highest wage incomes in whole of Finland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mankkaa

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Aalto University

    Aalto University is a public research university located in Espoo, Finland. It was established in 2010 as a merger of three major Finnish universities: the Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economics and the University of Art and Design Helsinki.

    3.8 km · Finnish university · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art

    The EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, is a major art museum in Espoo in southern Finland. After the founding of Espoo Art Museum Foundation in September 2002, EMMA opened its doors for visitors in 2006.

    2.8 km · art museum in Espoo in southern Finland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Sello

    Sello is a shopping mall in the Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland. The mall contains more than 170 shops and services including a concert hall and a library.

    3.2 km · shopping mall in Espoo, Finland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Espoo Metro Areena

    Espoo Metro Areena is an arena in the Tapiola District of Espoo, Finland. The arena is part of the Tapiolan Urheilupuisto.

    2.7 km · multi-purpose stadium in Espoo, Finland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Helsinki Finland Temple

    The Helsinki Finland Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Espoo, Finland. Announced on April 2, 2000, it was the last temple dedicated by church president Gordon B. Hinckley and, at the time, served the church’s largest temple district, spanning at least a dozen time zones.

    2.9 km · LDS temple in Finland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Villa Elfvik

    The Villa Elfvik nature house is an environmental education centre in Espoo, Finland, directed at all residents of Espoo. The nature house offers information about nature and the environment in all forms.

    3.1 km · house in Finland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    WeeGee house

    The WeeGee house, officially The WeeGee Exhibition Centre, is the former printing house of the Weilin+Göös publishing house situated on Ahertajantie in Tapiola, Espoo, Finland. The first two phases of the building were designed by architect Aarno Ruusuvuori and completed in 1964 and 1967.

    2.8 km · art museum building in Espoo, Finland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Tapiola Church

    Tapiola Church is a Lutheran church in the Tapiola district of Espoo, Finland. The modernist concrete building in brutalist style was designed by the architect Aarno Ruusuvuori and opened in 1965.

    3.4 km · church in Espoo, Finland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Otaniemi water tower

    The Otaniemi water tower is a structure designed by the well-known Finnish architect Alvar Aalto in 1971. The water tower is located in Otaniemi area, Espoo, Finland.

    3.6 km · water tower in Espoo, Finland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Aalto University Library

    Aalto University Library, from 2015 called Aalto University Learning Centre is a service unit of Aalto University. The library is a scientific service organization free for everyone to use.

    3.8 km · scientific library and service unit of Aalto University, located in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Mankkaa

Airports
Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 17 km · Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 88 km · Turku (TKU), 142 km
Stations
Aalto University metro station, 3.7 km · Urheilupuisto metro station, 2.9 km · Tapiola metro station, 3.4 km · Niittykumpu metro station, 3.3 km · Leppävaara railway station, 3.4 km
  • Turku → Mankkaa
    141 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €15–22
  • Tampere / Pirkkala → Mankkaa
    150 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · €19–26
  • Lappeenranta → Mankkaa
    210 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · €23–33
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mankkaa

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mankkaa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe same is true if you're arriving from Tallinn on Tallink's or Eckerö Line's ferries, from St.
  • Get inPetersburg by ferry or on a massive cruise ship that can't dock in central Helsinki.

From Wikivoyage: Helsinki/Kamppi and Southwest, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Turku and the archipelago gatewayFI

    11 ways of moving, 13 sources

    140 km
  2. 02158 km
  3. 03
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    188 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    220 km
  5. 05
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    268 km

If you know how people move in Mankkaa – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Mankkaa

Mankkaa is 6 km from Espoo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kauniainentown in the region of Uusimaa in Finland2.3 km
  • Q1668730city district in Espoo, Finland3.4 km
  • Leppävaaracity district in Espoo, Finland3.3 km
  • Kilocity district in Espoo, Finland2.1 km
  • Olaricity district in Espoo, Finland3.8 km
  • Sepänkyläcity district in Espoo, Finland1.9 km