What is "up north"

adv. In the northern part of an area, country etc.

Up North is term used in England primarily by Southerners to refer to the North of England. In the United States, it sees the same usage, primarily by those in the South to refer to the Northeast and Midwestern regions of the country.

It may also refer to:

• Up North (book), a book by Charles Jennings
• Up North (television), an MTV television show
• Up North Combine, a British amalgamation of pigeon racing clubs
• "Up North (Down South, Back East, Out West)," a song by Wade Hayes from the album Highways & Heartaches

• Up North, a slang euphemism for going to prison.
• Northern Michigan, by residents of the lower peninsula of Michigan
  • Similarly, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
• Northern Minnesota, by residents of other parts of the state.
• The Lake Superior Lowland and the Northern Highland of Wisconsin
• Pacific Northwest, by residents of California.

Up North was an MTV television show, broadcast on MTV Europe and several national TV stations in Northern Europe. Every week the viewers could vote for their favourite song as they were presented in the show, viewers voted either by SMS or on the MTV Europe website. Artists listed on Up North were from the Nordic countries and other Northern European countries such as the Baltic states. The shows introduction featured penguins which is fault. Because penguins only exists on the south pole and not on the north pole. MTV claimed else.

The last show aired on September 12, 2005.

Up North is a travel book by Charles Jennings, detailing his excursion from the south to Northern England. Throughout the duration of the book, written in 1992, he conveys a sense of grimness and hopelessness " up north" with a certain acerbic wit; he suggests, for instance, that the name Grimsby may be dissected as combining 'grim' and 'by the sea'.

The Mayor of Grimsby at the time commented that Jennings "should have stayed under his duvet down south."