Upper Midwest

Upper Midwest
Mississippi River viewed from Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa Dairy Farm in Wisconsin Voyageurs National Park and Boundary Waters Theodore Roosevelt National Park Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Detroit Minneapolis
Map of the United States with the Upper Midwest highlighted (as defined by the National Weather Service)
Demonym	Upper Midwesterner

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The Upper Midwest is a northern subregion of the U.S. Census Bureau's Midwestern United States. Although the exact boundaries are not uniformly agreed upon, the region is usually defined to include the states of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, North Dakota, and South Dakota; some definitions include parts of Nebraska and Illinois.