Chereksky District (Russian: Черекский райо́н; Kabardian: Шэрэдж къедзыгъуэ; Karachay-Balkar: Черек район, Çerek rayon) is an administrative[1] and a municipal[4] district (raion), one of the ten in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia.

It is located in the central and southern parts of the republic.

The area of the district is 2,210 square kilometers (850 sq mi).

[citation needed] Its administrative center is the rural locality[2] (a settlement) of Kashkhatau.

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Chereksky District is one of the ten in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic and has administrative jurisdiction over all of its ten rural localities.