The area of the district is 8,792 square kilometres (3,395 sq mi).

Upstream of Songo, it is built up as the Lago Cahora Bassa, a water reservoir.

[1] The district is divided into three postos, Mpheende, Chinhopo, and Mukumbura, which in total comprise six localities.

[1] In the district, there are 9,000 farms which have on average 1.0 hectare (0.0039 sq mi) of land.

The main agricultural products are maize, cowpea, peanut, and sweet potato.