Sanok, (Ukrainian: Сянiк, Latin: Sanocum, German: Saanig, Yiddish: Sonik, in full The Royal Free City of Sanok, Polish: Królewskie Wolne Miasto Sanok), part of The Land of Sanok (Polish: Ziemia Sanocka, and Ruthenian Voivodeship), is a town in south-eastern Poland with 41,261 inhabitants (2005). Sanok is situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Krosno Voivodship (1975-1998). This historic city is situated on San River at the foot of Zamek Hill in Little Poland (Małopolska) region, lies in a wooded, hilly area on the highway (Nr. DK28) from Ustrzyki Dolne to Wadowice (340 km. away). Sanok contains an open air museum in the Biala Gora district, where examples of architecture from all of the region's main ethnic groups have been moved and carefully reassembled in a skansen evoking everyday rural life in the 1800s.
