It is located in the northwest of the autonomous okrug on the left bank of meridional part of the Ob River within the limits of North Sosva altitudes and the east slope of the North and Pre-Polar Ural and borders with the Komi Republic in the west and with Shuryshkarsky District of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in the north.

[3] The district lies in the basins of the Lesser Ob and the Severnaya Sosva Rivers.

The climate of the district is extremely cold, characterized by the way in which weather conditions are able to rapidly change.

The district is a place of dense habitation of the Mansi people (est.

[citation needed] Indigenous (Khanty, Mansi, and Nenets) make up approximately 25% of the district's population.