[4] The district is situated around Kaliningrad, the administrative center of the oblast.

For this reason the main railway lines and roads pass through the district.

In the west, parted from the rest of the district by Kaliningrad, the town of Svetly is located on the Vistula Lagoon.

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Guryevsky District is one of the fifteen in the oblast.

[2] As a municipal division, the district has been incorporated as Guryevsky Urban Okrug since May 31, 2013.