# 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 1990 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