The area of the district is 750 square kilometers (290 sq mi).

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

[1] The district is divided into sixteen selsoviets which comprise fifty rural localities.

[5] Its sixteen selsoviets are incorporated as nineteen rural settlements within the municipal district.

Laksky and Kulinsky Districts are the territory where the ethnic Laks predominantly live.