Upstate

The term upstate often refers to the northernly portions of a handful of U.S. states. It is also sometimes used to refer to parts of states that have a higher elevation and are away from sea level. Often these portions are also more rural, though the opposite is true for Delaware.

On the east coast, the states which use it refer to those parts further inland and away from the Atlantic Ocean.

• Upstate California refers to the 20 northernmost counties of California, the portion north of but not including the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento metro area, approximately the northern half of Northern California
• Upstate Delaware, either all of New Castle County, the northernmost and most populous county, or the portion of the county north of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.
• Any part of Maine not "Down East"
• Upstate New York, loosely defined area of the State of New York north of the New York metropolitan area
• Upstate South Carolina, the northwestern corner of South Carolina

See also

• All articles beginning with "Upstate"
• Downstate Illinois, which describes a similar concept in Illinois where the majority of the population is in the northern, rather than southern, section