[5] The territory of the district is occupied by the eastern edge of the Caspian lowland with sands and salt marshes (Dead Kultuk, etc.

), the eastern part is the Ustyurt Plateau with the Mynsualmas hill.

[6] Reserves of petroleum and gas, shell rock, and construction sands have been explored in the depths.

The vegetation is semi-desert: halophytes, artemisia (plant), haloxylon thickets in places.

There are saiga antelopes, goitered gazelle, hare, wolf, fox, rodents and others.