It is bordered on the north by the "arrondissement" of Verviers in Belgium, to the east by the German district of Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm (part of the "Land" of Rhineland-Palatinate), to the southeast by the Vianden canton, to the south by the Diekirch canton, to the southwest by the Wiltz canton, and to the west by the "arrondissement" of Bastogne in Belgium.