Shahbuz region was established on August 8, 1930.The area is 814.97 square kilometers. There are 1 city, 1 settlement, 22 villages in the district. Shahbuz district in situated in the north of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. Shahbuz district takes its name from the name of the rock of the Middle Ages.Landscape of the district is mountainous. The highest points are Salvarti, Kechaldag (3115 m) (3160 m) and Kukuldag (3120 m) mountains. Mountain pass Bichanak is in the territory of the district. There are mineral fields in the district: fields of sulfur, peat, and construction materials. The district is rich of the springs - Badamli, Bichanak, Batabat, and Caravansara etc.  There are residential settlements and tombstones of the Eneolithic, Bronze, Iron Age, Antiquity, and also the Middle Ages on the territory of the district. Residential settlements, that preserved from the 3rd century BC, were found on the banks of the Kyukyu River, .