It is located in the southern central part of the republic.

The area of the district is 1,450 square kilometers (560 sq mi).

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

[3] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Dakhadayevsky District is one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan.

[1] It is divided into one settlement (an administrative division with the administrative center in the urban-type settlement (an inhabited locality) of Kubachi) and fifteen selsoviets, which comprise sixty-three rural localities.