Gunibsky District (Russian: Гуни́бский райо́н; Avar: Гӏандалал мухъ) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the center of the republic. The area of the district is 609.5 square kilometers (235.3 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Gunib. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 25,303, with the population of Gunib accounting for 9.0% of that number.