The area of the district is 801 square kilometers (309 sq mi).

[2] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Khuchni.

[3] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Tabasaransky District is one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan.

[1] The district is divided into eighteen selsoviets which comprise seventy-four rural localities.

[5] Its eighteen selsoviets are incorporated as twenty-two rural settlements within the municipal district.