Located in the south of the European part of Russia. It is bordered on the south by the Krasnodar and Stavropol edges, in the south-east - with Kalmykia, in the east and north-east - with the Volgograd region in the north - with Voronezh region, in the west of the state border with Ukraine, in the south-west by the Taganrog Bay Azov sea (sea border with Ukraine).
Located in the southern part of the East European Plain and partly in the Ante. The terrain is mostly flat.
In the west - the east