The area of the district is 1,080 square kilometers (420 sq mi).

[8] Lgovsky District is located in the west central region of Kursk Oblast.

The terrain is hilly plain; the district lies on the Orel-Kursk plateau of the Central Russian Upland.

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Lgovsky District is one of the twenty-eight in the oblast.

[1] The town of Lgov serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.