Diksonsky District

The district comprised a large area of the okrug's northern coastline as well as almost all of the arctic islands subordinated to the region, most notably Severnaya Zemlya.

The district is famed for having contained the most northerly point in mainland Russia and therefore the continent of Eurasia, Cape Chelyuskin.

It shared borders (from west to east) with the Ust-Yeniseisky, Dudinsky and Khatangsky districts of Taymyr AO.

Covering an area of 4,169,222 ha, it stretches for over 1,000 kilometres from west to east and its latitude reaches much further north than 85°N.

Diksonsky district contained only one settlement, the city of Dikson (postal code 647340) with a population of 861 as of 1 January 2017.