The district is located in the southeastern part of the republic and occupies an area of 1,408.6 square kilometers (543.9 sq mi).

Among the specially protected are the Adonis Forest and Novo-Aleksandrovsky Slope reserves, Karabash Mountain, Tatarsko-Dymskaya Polyana and the Yutaza River, as well as ancient archaeological sites.

The visual design of the coat of arms includes a white dome with a steeple standing on a green hill and set against a red background.

The openwork dome symbolically acknowledges the region's religious and ethnic diversity and emphasizes its historical and cultural heritage.

The flag is based on heraldic elements of the coat of arms, with the exception of the green stripe, which is depicted as a straight and not a hilly line.

After the Nogai were driven back, the ethnically diverse population continued to be small in number and was often subjected to Kalmyk raids.

According to historian Aydar Nogmanov, only after the Bashkir uprising of 1704-1711 was suppressed, farmers began to move to the South-Eastern Trans-Kama region.

Historians tend to attribute this rise to the proximity of important trade and postal routes, as well as to the growth of the non-Russian population over which the tsarist government sought to establish its control.

In 1781, Bugulma received the status of the county (uyezd) town and, along with surrounding lands, entered the jurisdiction of the Ufa governorship.

About 47% of the locals identified themselves as Russians; 30% as Bashkirs; 15% were Tatars; and the rest of the population was represented by the Chuvashes, Mordovians and other ethnic groups.

In 1918, the Red Army confronted the Czechoslovak units, and in 1919 they armed against White military leader Alexander Kolchak.

During this time, the celebrated Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek served in Bugulma as an assistant commandant and wrote there a number of satirical works.

In 1963, the territories of the Bavlinsky and Yutazinsky districts were once again incorporated into Bugulma whose area expanded to 3924 km², and the population grew over 71 thousand people.

Historian Khalida Bagautdinova points out that forests played a very important role in the Tatar economy, and logging was used to heat homes and build houses and outbuildings, although it caused frequent fires.

[18] Due to its advantageous geographical location on the road from Ufa and Orenburg to Kazan, Bugulma became an important provincial trade center of the era.

In the 1950s, the Tatneft group was established in Bugulma and the Tatar Oil Research and Design Institute (TatNIPIneft) was opened and gave impetus to the city’s development.

Large companies and enterprises, whose workforce varies from 400 to 6000 people, are involved in the innovation activity of the Bugulminsky district.

Since 2010, the Bugulma administration has been focusing on diversifying the economy, developing the food industry, as well as attracting federal and international capital to the region.

The sports infrastructure includes such large facilities as the Energetik stadium with a ski lodge and the Yubileiny Ice Palace.

Regional newspapers “Bugelmu avazy” ("Voice of Bugulma") and “Bugulminskaya Gazeta” are published in Tatar and Russian languages.