| | Upper Peninsula of Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is the northern of the two major land masses that comprise the U.S. state of Michigan. |
| | It is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Mackinac Straits, five miles across at the narrowest, and is connected to it only by the Mackinac Bridge. |
| | In 1819 the territory was expanded to include the remainder of the Upper Peninsula, all of Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota (previously included in the Indiana and Illinois Territories). |
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