[1] The Polish Uplanders inhabit the central and the southern half of the Beskids in Poland, including the Ciężkowickie, Strzyżowskie and Dynowskie Plateau as well as Doły Jasielsko-Sanockie, from the White River (Biała) in the west to the San River in the east.

They represent the major population group inhabiting the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, living alongside German[2][3] and Rusyn people.

Polish Uplanders are neighbours with: the Lachy sądeckie to the west; Krakowiacy and Rzeszowiacy to the north; and Dolinians [pl] (vale-dwellers) and Lemkos (both Rusyn subgroups) to the south.

Traditional occupations of the Polish Uplanders included agriculture, oil-mining and the military; today these are joined by the service and petroleum industries, and by agrotourism.

In 1854 in the village Bóbrka near Krosno, the first oil field in the world began production.