Konotop district is located in the central part of Sumy region, in the historical and ethnographic region of Slobozhanshchina. The Seym River flows within the district. The nature of the floodplain of the Seimas is protected by the Seimas Regional Landscape Park, which includes a natural monument of national importance "Boromlya Tract".
The administrative center of Konotop district is the city of Konotop, where there is an interesting Ascension Cathedral and the museum-manor of General Dragomirov. A monument was erected near Konotop on the site of the Battle of Konotop. A complex of ancient religious buildings has been preserved in the historic Putivl, including the Molchensky Pechersk Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God, the Holy Spirit Monastery and the Chur ...