Sankury | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Podlaskie |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Sejny |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Puńsk |
Coordinates: | 54.2333°N 44°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Population Total: | 37[1] |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 16-515 [2] |
Blank Name: | Car plates |
Blank Info: | BSE |
Sankury (; lt|Sankūrai) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Puńsk, within Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Lithuania.[3] It lies approximately 11km (07miles) east of Puńsk, 130NaN0 north of Sejny, and 1250NaN0 north of the regional capital Białystok.
From 1975-1998 the village was administratively governed by the Suwałki Voivodeship.
A WOP watchtower was stationed in Sankury.
In 1827 it was recorded that the population of the village numbered at 64 and 6 homes and in 1890 it was numbered at 82 people and 8 homes.[4]