The area of the district is 53,985 square kilometers (20,844 sq mi).

[2] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Boguchany.

[3]The district is situated in the Angara River basin.

From north to south, the district stretches for 280 kilometers (170 mi).

[2] As of the 2002 Census, the ethnic composition of the population was as follows:[citation needed] In 2009, the rate of the natural decline of the district population was 4.3 persons per 1,000 in 2006, which is in sharp contrast with the krai's average growth of 0.2 persons per 1,000.