Baabda (Arabic: بعبدا) is the capital city of Baabda District and Mount Lebanon Governorate, western Lebanon.

Baabda was also the capital city of the autonomous Ottoman Mount Lebanon that existed from 1861 to 1918.

Baabda is home to the Italian, Japanese, Jordanian, Polish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Indonesian, Spanish and other embassies.

[2][3] From 1988 to 1990, Lebanon's interim prime minister, Michel Aoun took up residence in the Baabda Palace surrounded by loyal soldiers.

[4] During the War of Liberation, Syrian forces attacked it on October 13, 1990, forcing Aoun to seek shelter in the French Embassy in Baabda.