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

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

The area of the district is 2,992.4 square kilometers (1,155.4 sq mi).

[1] Its administrative center is the town of Vetluga.

[7] The population of Vetluga accounts for 54.8% of the district's total population.