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The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is the northern of the two major land masses that comprise the U.S. state of Michigan. It is commonly referred to as simply the Upper Peninsula, the U.P., or Upper Michigan, and more casually as the land "above the Bridge". It is bounded on the north by Lake Superior, on the east by St. Mary's River, on the south by Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, and on the west by Wisconsin.

The Upper Peninsula contains almost one-third of the land area of Michigan but just 3% of the total population. Residents are known as Yoopers, a corruption of "U.P.-ers", and have a strong regional identity. It includes the only counties in the United States where a plurality of residents state their ancestry as Finnish. The largest cities are Marquette, Escanaba, Sault Ste Marie, and Iron Mountain. The land and climate are not very suitable for agriculture, although the economy has occasionally thrived from logging and mining. Most mines have closed since the "golden age" from 1890 to 1920, and the land is now heavily forested. Logging remains a major industry.

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