The district is located in the Jimi Valley, which stretches from the northeast corner of Jiwaka and into Madang Province.
Jimi District is almost entirely mountainous and is mostly covered with rainforest, although this forest is disappearing quickly due to peanut cultivation.
The district is further sub-divided into three small sub-districts; Upper Jimi-Kol, Middle Jimi-Tabibuga and Lower Jimi-Koinambe.
Narak is spoken by the Middle Jimi people from Ngamba to Kwipun, with some living along the Bismarck Range and towards the western end of the Maikmol Villages.
The total population of Jimi District was 71,379 at the time of the 2011 census,[3] although exact numbers are difficult to determine due to inhabitants' isolation and rural lifestyle.
Medical care for residents of the area can be quite limited at times due to insufficient road infrastructure.
One notable missionary was Edward Wilhelm Bromley of the Church of the Nazarene, who settled in Tsingoropa in the Middle Jimi.
Since the 1st House of Assembly in 1973, Jimi has seen a good number of MP's representing them through ballot box votes, conducted at a five years space, starting from 1977 on-wards.
Contested under endorsement of Kimb Tai pruposly to split votes in the lower Jimi, but surprisingly un-seated.
However, the PM was very heart broken to see the run down state of the district even though he heard stories from his Pangia CEO (formerly DA), who happens to be a Jimi man.
To date, Jimi highway is in a very very bad state, with links cut off completely past Konza area after the monsoon seasons in March 2019.
It is usually a sad experience to face life like that especially with the complete cut off of Jimi's only life-line, the Kopun Highway when all things from transportation of basic necessity to school children's travelling and also other business activities are on halt during the road block.
During his reign the roads were made and extended for the length and breadth of the electorate they were in pristine condition such much that non 4 wheel drive cars could travel with ease.
In the 2012 elections it was predicted that Mai Dop, a local businessman would win the election, and he won, but failed to deliver and most importantly failed to bring Tabibuga Station back to its glory days although he was a local man around Tabibuga station.
Mai's first set of development has seen machinery bought through the DSIP (District Support Improvement Program) fund for the upgrade of the long neglected Jimi Highway.
During Mai Dop's term, it was noted that all decisions concerning the District's affairs were all conducted outside Jimi with a considerable portions of money spend on hiring of meeting avenues.
A good portion of Jimi's budget was spent on hire cars and accommodation for un-productive meetings and gathering.
It is hoped that the current MP Wake Goi will find and bring into light the whereabouts of Jimi's K75 Million kina over the last 5 years during Mai Dop's term as it is simply a very huge amount of money that can transpire Jimi, or at least will show some tangible services that can last for some time.
A good number of money is seen spent on hire cars and hotels as usual with a few ad-hoc projects and services being delivered but that seem that will not have lasting effect if I am not correct.
That hope can truly come into reality if the poor Jimi people are not lured by cash or bribery during the election period.
Cases of rape and killing related to sorcery is still head of but prosecution is not possible considering the geographical local of the places where these incidents happen.
The Department of Primary Industry (DPI) through the Rural Development Officers (RDO) are carrying out active campaigns on food security in the area.
National Agriculture Research Institute (NARI) has also stepped into the area by introducing cattle farming, duck and poultry, sheep, goat, fish etc.
With the trial periods yielding better results than expected, Jimi is now considered ideal for the NARI introduced livestock.
Apart from that, gold is panned widely around Jimi and there is little sign of commercial logging and coffee and peanut harvesting.
Recently there has been a wild life center opened at Maikmol, which is named after the former Jimi MP, Sir Thomas Kavali.
There are number of commercial activities going on in small scale like panning for gold, vanilla, rice planting and harvesting for local consumption as well.
Back in the days, the locals usually predict the weather through the sunrise, and sunset and also looking at the shape and where the moon rises from, however, this cannot be the case anymore as the global effect on climate change felt by everyone else has also affected Jimi.
After the rain has watered the gardens, it is now weeding time, and the first lots of vegetables such as cucumbers and corn would normally be harvested, and then followed by the Jimi's stable food, the sweet potatoes (or normally called Kaukau).