Shostka district (Shostkynskyi) is located in the northern part of Sumy region, at the intersection of historical and ethnographic regions of Polissya, Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna. Along the western border of the district the river Desna flows.
Lakes Velyki and Mali Bahy in the Desna floodplain and part of the Starohutsky forest are part of the Desnyansko-Starohutsky National Nature Park. The Prudishche Regional Landscape Park is also located within the district.
The main tourist center of the district is the historic city of Hlukhiv, the former capital of the Hetmanate and the residence of the Tereshchenko family. Here are such historical and cultural monuments as the Mykolaivska Church of the Cossack times, the Three-Anastasievska Church-Tomb of Tereshchenko, the Chu ...