Anost (French pronunciation: [ano]) is a rural commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central-east France.

[3] It is located on the departmental border with Nièvre, northeast of the Haut-Folin summit and southwest of Ménessaire, a Côte-d'Or exclave.

The commune lies in the northwestern part of Saône-et-Loire, northwest of the subprefecture Autun.

It is part of the Morvan natural area, as well as Morvan Regional Natural Park.