Jimi Valley is one of the remote districts of Western Highlands Province

Western Highlands (Papua New Guinea)

Western Highlands is a province of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital is Mount Hagen. The province covers an area of 8,500 km², and there are 440,025 inhabitants , making the Western Highlands one of the most densely populated provinces. Tea and coffee are grown in the Western Highlands...

, in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...

. The valley itself stretches from the northeast corner of the district and into Madang Province

Madang Province

Madang is a province on the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea. The province has many of the country's highest peaks, active volcanoes and its biggest mix of languages...

. The Jimi district is almost 90% mountainous and has a rainforest

Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions based on a minimum normal annual rainfall of 1750-2000 mm...

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The district is further sub-divided into three small sub-districts; Upper Jimi - Kol, Middle Jimi - Tabibuga and Lower Jimi - Koinambe. The district got its name after Jim Taylor

Jim Taylor (explorer)

James "Jim" Lindsay Taylor was an Australian born, Papua New Guinean explorer. He is most noted for leading patrols into the Highlands of Papua New Guinea in the 1930s...

 who toured the place in the early 1960s.

Population

The total population of Jimi is estimated to be 70,000 after the 2007 census. However, it is very difficult to get everyone on the common roll due to the isolation of villages.

Literacy Rate

Literacy rate in Jimi is less than 10%. Jimi has few primary schools and one high school. These are some of the primary schools in the area;

1. Jimi River Primary School
2. Karap Primary School
3. Kauil Community School
4. Tsingoropa Primary School
5. Togban Community School
6. Kompiai Community School