 Bolshezemelsky district was located in the central-east of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.It shared borders with the Nizhne-Pechorsky district in the west and the Amderminsky district in the east, as well as the Usinsk and Inta Urban Okrugs in the Komi Republic (which the district was formerly a part of).The district was formed on 15 July 1929 from a part of the Izhmo-Pechora Uyezd of the Komi Autonomous Oblast, the administrative centre of the district at Hoseda-Hard.