The administrative centre of the county was Tiraspol.

The area of the Tiraspol uezd corresponded to most of Odesa Oblast and the breakaway territory of Transnistria, which is a part of Moldova.

The subcounties (volosts) of the Tiraspol uezd in 1912 were as follows:[1] At the time of the Russian Empire Census on 28 January [O.S.

15 January] 1897, the Tiraspol uezd had a population of 240,145, including 123,218 men and 116,927 women.

The majority of the population indicated Little Russian[b] to be their mother tongue, with significant Romanian, Great Russian, Jewish, and German speaking minorities.