The district is particularly famous for the historical temple town of Sirpur besides the Mahanadi river.

Mahasamund district covers an area of 3902.39 km² in the central eastern part of Chhattisgarh.

The construction of four-lane road in National Highway 6 from Arang–Mahasamund to Saraipali up to Bargarh Sambalpur Odisha has been completed.

Mahasamund station is well connected to Raipur, Durg, Nagpur, Mumbai, Delhi, Bhopal, Gwalior, Sambalpur, Titlagarh, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati, Puri, Bilaspur, Korba, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Ahmedabad, etc., through the Indian Railways system.

According to the 2011 census Mahasamund district has a population of 1,032,754,[2] roughly equal to the nation of Cyprus[3] or the US state of Rhode Island.