The area of the district is 3,700 square kilometers (1,400 sq mi).

[2] Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Blagoveshchenka.

[3] Blagoveshchensky District is located in the northwest of Altai Krai, on flat terrain of the Kulunda Steppe of the West Siberian Plain.

Much of the western border of the district is the shore of Lake Kulunda.

Bauzhansor lies 25 kilometers (16 mi) to the WSW and Zhigilda close to its northern end.