[4] The administrative center of the uezd was the city of Geokchay (present-day Goychay).

[5] The Geokchay uezd was formed in 1868 as part of the Baku Governorate of the Russian Empire.

[6] It was later abolished in 1929 by Soviet authorities during an administrative reorganisation of the region into rayons.

The majority of the population indicated Tatar[b] to be their mother tongue, with significant Armenian and Tat speaking minorities.

[12] According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Geokchay uezd had 134,098 residents on 14 January [O.S.