Its administrative center was located in the urban-type settlement of Nova Ushytsia.

)[5] Nova Ushytsia Raion was located in the south-central part of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, corresponding to the modern-day boundaries of the Volhynia and Podolia historical regions.

[6] Nova Ushytsia Raion was first established on March 7, 1923 as part of a full-scale administrative reorganization of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Nova Ushytsia Raion was divided in a way that followed the general administrative scheme in Ukraine.

Consequently, raions were subdivided into councils, which were the prime level of administrative division in the country.