The area of the district is 4,391 square kilometers (1,695 sq mi).

[7] Kemerovsky District is in the northwest of the Kuznetsk Depression, which is the basin of the Tom River between the Salair Ridge to the west, and the Kuznetsk Alatau mountains to the east.

The district covers a rich portion of the Kuznetsk Basin (the "Kuzbass" coal region).

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kemerovsky District is one of the nineteen in the oblast.

[4] Kemerovo City Under Oblast Jurisdiction is incorporated separately from the district as Kemerovsky Urban Okrug.