[1] The area of the district is 4,852 square kilometers (1,873 sq mi).

[3] Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Shalya.

[4] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Shalinsky District is one of the thirty in the oblast.

[1] The work settlement of Shalya serves as its administrative center.

[2] As a municipal division, the territory of the district is split between two municipal formations—Shalinsky Urban Okrug,[7][5] to which the work settlement of Shalya and thirty-eight of the administrative district's rural localities belong,[10] and Staroutkinsk Urban Okrug,[11][5] which covers the rest of the administrative district's territory, including the work settlement of Staroutkinsk and three remaining rural localities.