[4] Main bodies of water in the district include the Sakmara, Tanalyk, and Bolshaya Urtazymka Rivers (with minor tributaries) as well as Lakes Talkas and Kultuban.

Forests cover 126,400 hectares (312,000 acres) (or 24.4% of the total area) with reserves of 18,800,000 cubic meters (660,000,000 cu ft) of timber (with softwood comprising 3,400,000 cubic meters (120,000,000 cu ft) of the reserves).

The district, being located in the Ural Mountains, feels the effects of the Asian continental air and has a mild climate.

[2] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Baymaksky District is one of the fifty-four in the Republic of Bashkortostan.

[1] It is divided into twenty-two selsoviets, comprising ninety-one rural localities.