The area of the district is 1,472 square kilometers (568 sq mi).

[3] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a settlement) of Maysky.

The Ukrainian city of Kharkiv is 25 kilometres (16 mi) away to the south.

The administrative center of the district is the town of Maysky,[13] which is 16 kilometers south-west of central Belgorod.

The terrain is hilly plain averaging 200 metres (660 ft) above sea level; the district lies on the Orel-Kursk plateau of the Central Russian Upland.