diff --git a/src/extended_json.ts b/src/extended_json.ts
index 90269623b..494470304 100644
--- a/src/extended_json.ts
+++ b/src/extended_json.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { Binary } from './binary';
 import type { Document } from './bson';
+import { UUID } from './uuid';
 import { Code } from './code';
 import { DBRef, isDBRefLike } from './db_ref';
 import { Decimal128 } from './decimal128';
@@ -32,7 +33,8 @@ type BSONType =
   | ObjectId
   | BSONRegExp
   | BSONSymbol
-  | Timestamp;
+  | Timestamp
+  | UUID;
 
 export function isBSONType(value: unknown): value is BSONType {
   return (
@@ -247,6 +249,7 @@ function serializeValue(value: any, options: EJSONSerializeOptions): any {
 
 const BSON_TYPE_MAPPINGS = {
   Binary: (o: Binary) => new Binary(o.value(), o.sub_type),
+  UUID: (o: UUID) => new UUID(o.id),
   Code: (o: Code) => new Code(o.code, o.scope),
   DBRef: (o: DBRef) => new DBRef(o.collection || o.namespace, o.oid, o.db, o.fields), // "namespace" for 1.x library backwards compat
   Decimal128: (o: Decimal128) => new Decimal128(o.bytes),
diff --git a/src/uuid.ts b/src/uuid.ts
index 625e57dea..0bb496aa4 100644
--- a/src/uuid.ts
+++ b/src/uuid.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { Binary } from './binary';
 import { bufferToUuidHexString, uuidHexStringToBuffer, uuidValidateString } from './uuid_utils';
 import { isUint8Array, randomBytes } from './parser/utils';
 import { BSONTypeError } from './error';
+import type { EJSONOptions } from './extended_json';
 
 /** @public */
 export type UUIDExtended = {
@@ -204,6 +205,10 @@ export class UUID {
   inspect(): string {
     return `new UUID("${this.toHexString()}")`;
   }
+
+  toExtendedJSON(options: EJSONOptions) {
+    return this.toBinary().toExtendedJSON(options);
+  }
 }
 
 Object.defineProperty(UUID.prototype, '_bsontype', { value: 'UUID' });
diff --git a/test/node/extended_json_tests.js b/test/node/extended_json_tests.js
index e8f97457a..450d45dd0 100644
--- a/test/node/extended_json_tests.js
+++ b/test/node/extended_json_tests.js
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ const ObjectId = BSON.ObjectId;
 const BSONRegExp = BSON.BSONRegExp;
 const BSONSymbol = BSON.BSONSymbol;
 const Timestamp = BSON.Timestamp;
+const UUID = BSON.UUID;
 
 // Several tests in this file can test interop between current library versions and library version 1.1.0, because
 // between 1.1.0 and 4.0.0 there was a significant rewrite. To minimize maintenance issues of a hard dependency on
@@ -739,4 +740,18 @@ Converting circular structure to EJSON:
       });
     });
   });
+
+  describe('UUID stringify', () => {
+    const uuid = new UUID();
+    const stringifiedPlainUUID = EJSON.stringify({ u: uuid });
+    it('should return same values for UUID.toBinary() and UUID', () => {
+      const stringifiedToBinary = EJSON.stringify({ u: uuid.toBinary() });
+      expect(stringifiedToBinary).to.deep.equal(stringifiedPlainUUID);
+    });
+    it('should serialize to correct subType', () => {
+      const stringifiedUUIDtoObject = JSON.parse(stringifiedPlainUUID);
+      const stringifiedBinaryNewUUIDSubType = '04';
+      expect(stringifiedUUIDtoObject.u.$binary.subType).to.equal(stringifiedBinaryNewUUIDSubType);
+    });
+  });
 });