The area of the district is 16,100 square kilometers (6,200 sq mi).

[1] The Yablonoi Mountains and the Chersky Range stretch from NE to SW across the district, one west and the other east of the city of Chita.

[11][12] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Chitinsky District is one of the thirty-one in the krai.

[1] The city of Chita serves as its administrative center.

[1] As a municipal division, the territory of the district is split between two municipal formations—Chitinsky Municipal District,[6] to which three urban-type settlements and fifty-four of the administrative district's rural localities belong,[13] and Chita Urban Okrug,[6] which covers the rest of the administrative district's territory, including the city of Chita and the remaining rural locality.