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

[3] The district is in rugged terrain in the forested foothills of Degestan, 50 km west of the Caspian Sea.

There are many river valleys, canyons, and gulleys cutting the landscape with fast-moving streams.

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kazbekovsky 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 Dubki) and three selsoviets, which comprise fifteen rural localities.