The area of the district is 1,657.29 square kilometers (639.88 sq mi).

[8] Kursky District is located in the center of Kursk Oblast.

The terrain is hilly plain; the district lies on the Orel-Kursk plateau of the Central Russian Upland.

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kursky District is one of the twenty-eight in the oblast.

[1] The city of Kursk serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.