The Upper Peninsula is unique, geography-wise. Connected to Wisconsin, it’s surrounded on the other sides by Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron.

It’s not just the land mass, though, that makes the U.P. distinctive.

Justin “Bugsy” Sailor has compiled “The Ultimate List of Upper Peninsula Facts.”

Here’s a sampling:

• 906 is the one and only area code in the U.P.

• There are 8.8 million acres of forest in the U.P. out of a total of 10.5 million, making 84 percent of the U.P. covered by forest.

• There’s a lot of beach area as well — 1,700 miles of Great Lakes shoreline. Lake Superior comprises 917 miles of that total.

• It’s 629 highway miles from Ironwood to downstate Lambertville, the two farthest corners to which people can drive in Michigan.

• The four counties bordering Wisconsin — Gogebic, Iron, Dickinson and Menominee — are in the Central Time Zone while the other 11 counties are in the Eastern Time Zone.

• The U.P. is 3.16% of the Michigan population.

• There are over 3,000 miles of groomed snowmobile trails, which is the equivalent of snowmobiling from Orlando, Florida, to Seattle, Washington.

• Copper Harbor is the farthest town from an interstate highway — 251 miles — in the continental United States. Note: An interstate highway is part of a particular system; U.S. 41, which ends in Copper Harbor, is not part of that system.

• The most snowfall in the Keweenaw in a single year was almost 356 inches, which came in the winter of 1978-79.

• Michigan State University basketball coach Tom Izzo grew up in Iron Mountain and went to Northern Michigan University, where he was a Division II All-American basketball player.

• The maximum north-south distance in the U.P. is nearly 125 miles.

• The maximum east-west distance is nearly 320 miles.

• Lake Superior is about the size of South Carolina.

• Lake Michigan is about the size of West Virginia.

• The Seney Stretch, which runs from Shingleton to Seney, is the longest curveless section of highway in Michigan. It also is one of the longest stretches of curveless highway east of the Mississippi River.