Administratively the range is part of the Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation.

The name originated in the Evenki language, where "мома" means wood, timber or tree.

It is parallel to the latter and separated from it by a wide intermontane basin, where the Moma River flows from the southeast and joins the Indigirka.

Turning northwards, the Indigirka River cuts deeply across the range in its northwestern part.

[2] The highest point of the Moma Range is an unnamed 2,533 metres (8,310 ft) high peak located very near the Arctic Circle.