The area of the district is 730 square kilometers (280 sq mi).

[citation needed] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Mekhelta.

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

[1] The district is divided into six selsoviets which comprise twenty-seven rural localities.

[4] Its six selsoviets are incorporated as fifteen rural settlements within the municipal district.