Shatkovsky District (Russian: Шатко́вский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the forty in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.

[4] It is located in the south of the oblast.

The area of the district is 1,440.7 square kilometers (556.3 sq mi).

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

[7] The population of Shatki accounts for 35.7% of the district's total population.