The town is located 15 kilometres from district headquarters Samba.

River Baein flows from east side of Ghagwal.

Before 2006 Ghagwal was part of Kathua District of Jammu Division.

[2] The literacy rate of Ghagwal village was 83.56% compared to 67.16% of Jammu and Kashmir.

Ghagwal is connected to other places in Jammu and Kashmir and India by the Srinagar-Kanyakumari Highway NH-44 .