Poiana Sibiului (; ) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Poiana Sibiului. The name means "the glade of Sibiu".
Position The village is situated in the Cindrel Mountains at an altitude of about , west of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului ethnographic area.
History The first written account dates from 1537. Compared with the neighbouring villages, Poiana is a later settlement of Romanian population that moved higher in the mountains presumably dislocated by Saxon settlements. The occupation shifted from agriculture to sheep-herding, which remains even today the main occupation.
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