Its plateau lies between the four towns of Heiligenstadt (Bamberg county) to the north-northeast, Ebermannstadt to the east, Forchheim to the south-southeast and Eggolsheim to the west.

Nearby villages include Eschlipp to the north-northeast, Niedermirsberg, Breitenbach, Neuses-Poxstall, Reifenberg and Weilersbach to the east, Ehrlersheim and Rettern to the south, Kauernhofen, Weigelshofen, Drosendorf, Götzendorf to the west and Drügendorf to the north-northwest.

On the northern edge of the Lange Meile, on its boundary with the main plateau of the Franconia Jura between Eschlipp and Drügendorf are limestone quarries.

Among the high points on the Lange Meile, which are only gentle hill summits or eminences, are the following (with heights in metres (m) above sea level (NHN):[1] The rocks of the Lange Meile were formed by the Jurassic Sea and consist of clay, sandstone and limestone.

6233-371), the western flank of this table-like hill is part of the southern area of the SAC known as the Albtrauf from the Frisener Warte to the Lange Meile (Albtrauf von der Friesener Warte zur Langen Meile, FFH No.