It is situated off a secondary road, at the summit of a mountain in the coastal Nusayriyah Range and has an elevation of over 700 meters above sea level.

[1] Nearby localities include Daliyah to the east, Baabda to the south, Baniyas to the southwest, Qurfays to the west, Jableh to the northwest, al-Qassabin to the north and Ayn al-Sharqiyah to the northeast.

Dweir Baabda is a rural village whose inhabitants engage largely in agriculture, cultivating tobacco, olives and apples.

It serves as a center of sorts for some of the neighboring localities, providing health care and pharmaceutical services.

[6] Salah Jadid, the late strongman of Syria who was overthrown by Hafez al-Assad in 1970, was born in Dweir Baabda.