Jimo District is located in the east of Shandong Province, southwest of Shandong Peninsula and northeast of Qingdao. It borders the Yellow Sea in the east, Chengyang District and Laoshan District in the south, jiaozhou city and pingdu city in the west, Laixi City and Laiyang City in Yantai in the north, and Haiyang City across the bridge in the northeast. The longest from east to west is 76 kilometers, and the widest from north to south is 36 kilometers, with an area of 1920.92 square kilometers.
The landform of Jimo District is generally low mountains and hills, and the ground elevation is mostly between 20- 100 meters, with an average elevation of 54.47 meters. The terrain is generally high in the southeast and low in the northwest. The southeast is hilly area, accounting for 54.5% of the total area. Sishe Mountain, located at the junction of Wenquan Town and Aoshanwei Town, has the highest elevation, with the main peak at 326.80 meters above sea level, which is the highest point in the city.
natural resource
20 1 1 total land area of Jimo district 1780 square kilometers, with 72,976 hectares of cultivated land. Jimo District has a sea area of 25 17 square kilometers, coastline 183438+0 kilometers and bays 10, including T-shaped Bay, Louhang Bay and Aoshan Bay. There are 24 islands including Tian Heng Island, Greater Guam, Little Guam and Nu Island, among which Tian Heng Island is a historical island.
There are barite, bentonite, inkstone, medical stone, granite and basalt in Jimo area. Barite is distributed in the southwest of the city, with a reserve of over 3 million tons. Bentonite is more common in Xishan Qiancun, Huanxiu Sub-district Office, with a reserve of more than 5 million tons. Granite is mainly distributed in Aoshanweizhen area, and basalt is mainly distributed in Maojialing area of Duanbolan town.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Jimo District