Badlands (disambiguation)

Badlands are a type of terrain with clay-rich soil, and are found in regions with arid climate.

Badlands, Bad lands or Badland may also refer to:

Places

Canada

• Municipal District of Badlands No. 7, Alberta, a former municipal district

United States

• Philadelphia Badlands, a section of North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Badlands National Park, South Dakota
  • Badlands Observatory, an astronomical observatory named after the South Dakota Badlands
  • Badlands Wilderness, a wilderness area located entirely within the national park
• The Badlands (California), a mountain range

Arts and entertainment

Films

• In the Badlands, 1909 film with Hobart Bosworth, Betty Hartem and Tom Santschi
• The Bad Lands, a 1925 film starring Harry Carey
• Bad Lands (1939 film), an American western film starring Robert Barrat
• Badlands (film), a 1973 Terrence Malick film
• Into the Badlands (film), 1991 Western horror film
• Badland (2007 film), a German-American drama film directed by Francesco Lucente
• Bad Land: The Road to Fury, UK released title of the 2014 film Young Ones
• Badland (2019 film), an American western film starring Kevin Makely
• Bad Lands (2023 film), a Japanese drama film directed by Masato Harada

Music

Bands

• Badlands (band), an American hard rock band formed by Jake E. Lee
• Badlands, a British band formed by John Sloman

Albums

• Badlands (Badlands album), a 1989 album by the band of the same name
• Badlands (Dirty Beaches album), a 2011 album by Dirty Beaches
• Badlands (Peter Erskine), a 2001 album
• Badlands (Halsey album), a 2015 album by Halsey
• Badlands, a 1978 album and song by Bill Chinnock
• Badlands, a 2013 album and song by Trampled Under Foot

EPs

• Badlands (EP), a 2013 EP by Australian group Bad Dreems

Songs

• "Badlands" (Bruce Springsteen song), a Bruce Springsteen song from the 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town
• "Badlands", a song by AC/DC from Flick of the Switch
• "Badlands", a song by Metal Church from Blessing in Disguise
• "Bad Lands", a song by Zion I & The Grouch from Heroes in the City of Dope

Other

• Badlands (Swedish musical act), a Swedish semi-electronic music project formed by producer Catharina Jaunviksna

Publications

• Bad Land: An American Romance, a 1996 travelogue by Jonathan Raban
• Badlands, a comic book mini-series by Steven Grant
• Badlands, a 1975 novel by Robert Kroetsch about the Red Deer Valley of southern Alberta

Television

• "Badlands", an episode of Jewel Riders
• "Badlands", an episode of Generator Rex
• Into the Badlands (TV series)

Video games

• Badland (video game), released in 2013
  • Badland 2, a sequel of the mobile game
• Badlands (1984 video game), a 1984 laserdisc video game by Konami
• Badlands (video game), a 1989 arcade game published by Atari Games
• Badlands, a playable map in Team Fortress 2
• Badlands, a zone in World of Warcraft

Other

• Badlands (Star Trek), a location in the fictional Star Trek universe
• The Badlands, one of the six sectors of Mars in Red Faction: Guerrilla

People

• Annette Badland (born 1950), English actress
• Badlands Booker (born 1969), American hip hop artist and competitive eater

Other uses

• Operation Badlands, part of the Iraq War that began in 2003
• Battle of the Badlands, fought in Dakota Territory in 1864 between the US Army and several Native American tribes
• Badlands Motor Speedway, a dirt track racing complex in Brandon, South Dakota
• Badlands (San Francisco), a former gay bar in San Francisco's Castro District
• Badlands brand fishing and hunting gear, made by the W. C. Bradley Co. subsidiary Zebco Brands