The area of the district is 96,069 square kilometers (37,092 sq mi).

[3] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Chumikan.

[8] The district is located in the basin of the Uda and Tugur rivers.

In the northeast it has a stretch of coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk indented by numerous bays.

Bokon is the largest freshwater lake in the district.