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

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
• Predator: Badlands , a 2025 film set in the Predator universe

Music

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" (Backup), a 1995 episode
• "Badlands", an episode of Generator Rex
• "Badlands", an episode of Jewel Riders
• 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 laserdisc game by Konami
• Badlands (1990 video game), an 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
• Badlands (role-playing game), published 1991
• The Badlands, one of the six sectors of Mars in Red Faction: Guerrilla