- badlands - deeply eroded barren land
--1 is a kind of land, ground, soil
- Bad Lands, Badlands - an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska
--2 is a kind of geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
--2 is a part ofSouth Dakota, Coyote State, Mount Rushmore State, SD; Nebraska, Cornhusker State, NE - Bad Lands, Badlands - an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska