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Badiar Biosphere Reserve
Badiar Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site (designated 2002) in northern Guinea around Badiar National Park, adjacent to Senegal's Niokolo-Koba; savanna and dry-forest zoning with core, buffer, and transition areas.
Badies
Badies (Vicus Badies) was a Roman road station on the Via Salaria in central Italy, listed in the Antonine Itinerary between Falacrinum and Ad Centesimum; its site near Accumoli is uncertain. Distinct from Badias in Numidia.
Badīn District
Badīn District (بدين) is a district of Sindh, Pakistan, east of the Indus on the deltaic plain; capital Badin town, 6,726 km², 1,947,081 people (2023), sugarcane farming, coastal salinity and flood risk.
Badis ibn al-Mansur
Badis ibn al-Mansur (باديس بن منصور) was the third ruler of the Zirid dynasty of Ifriqiya, reigning from 996 until his death in 1016 while besieging his great-uncle Hammad.
Badis ibn Habus
Badis ibn Habus (باديس بن حبوس) was the third Zirid emir of Granada in al-Andalus, reigning from 1038 to 1073 and known as the strongest of the Berber kings of southern al-Andalus.
Badkhn
A badkhn (בַּדְחָן) is a Jewish wedding entertainer and master of ceremonies who gladdens the bride and groom with rhymed verse, humor, and song, parallel to the court jester.
Badla (बदला) (2019 film)
Badla is a 2019 Hindi-language mystery thriller directed by Sujoy Ghosh, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Taapsee Pannu as a lawyer and his client, a businesswoman accused of murder.
Badland (video game)
Badland (BADLAND) is a 2013 side-scrolling physics platformer by Finnish two-person studio Frogmind, released on iOS April 4, 2013; iPad Game of the Year 2013, 10 million players, Game of the Year Edition on consoles in 2015.
Badland Hunters (황야)
Badland Hunters (황야) is a 2024 Korean Netflix post-apocalyptic action film, Heo Myung-haeng's directorial debut, starring Ma Dong-seok as hunter Nam-san rescuing a teen from a doctor's experiments; it topped Netflix's global non-English chart for three weeks.
Badlands
Badlands are dissected, sparsely vegetated landscapes on soft sediment, with rills, gullies and very high erosion rates; the White River Badlands of South Dakota are the type locality.
Badlands (film)
Badlands is a 1973 American crime drama directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as teenage fugitives loosely based on the 1958 Starkweather spree.
Badlands (Halsey album)
Badlands is Halsey's debut studio album, released August 28, 2015: a dystopian concept album of electropop and dark pop, triple platinum, with every track RIAA certified, peaking at UK number 9.
Badlands National Park
Badlands National Park is a 244,000-acre national park in southwestern South Dakota, protecting eroded White River Badlands buttes, Oligocene fossil beds, mixed-grass prairie, bison, and reintroduced black-footed ferrets; monument from 1939, national park since 1978.
Badlapur
Badlapur (बदलापूर), a commuter city in Thane district, Maharashtra, in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, governed by Kulgaon-Badlapur Municipal Council; 174,226 people in 2011, town since 1971, divided East and West by its railway line.
Badlapur (बदलाPUR) (film)
Badlapur (बदलापुर) is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language neo-noir revenge thriller directed by Sriram Raghavan, starring Varun Dhawan as a man who pursues his wife and son's killers for fifteen years.
Badly Drawn Boy
Badly Drawn Boy is the alias of English singer-songwriter Damon Gough (born 1969), whose 2000 debut The Hour of Bewilderbeast won the Mercury Prize and led to the acclaimed About a Boy soundtrack.
Badmaash Company (बदमाश कंपनी)
Badmaash Company (बदमाश कंपनी) is a 2010 Yash Raj Films Hindi caper drama directed by Parmeet Sethi, starring Shahid Kapoor and Anushka Sharma as 1990s Bombay friends running a customs-duty-evasion import business, released 7 May 2010.
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport in which players hit a shuttlecock over a net, played by more than 200 million people and an Olympic sport since 1992.
Badminton Asia
Badminton Asia (Badminton Asia Confederation), the BWF-recognized governing body for badminton in Asia: 43 member associations across 5 sub-regions, headquartered in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, running the Asia Championships and team events.
Badminton Asia Championships
Badminton Asia Championships (亚洲羽毛球锦标赛), annual continental badminton championship since 1991, first held 1962 Kuala Lumpur; five events, Super 1000-level points, US$550,000 purse in 2026 at Ningbo, China, won by Shi Yu Qi and An Se-young.
Badminton Association of India
The Badminton Association of India (BAI) is the national governing body for badminton in India, a full Badminton World Federation member since 1935, based in New Delhi and led by president Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Badminton at the 2016 Rio Olympics: five events, 11–20 August, Riocentro Pavilhão 4, 172 athletes from 46 NOCs. Chen Long and Carolina Marín won singles gold; China took only two of five golds after sweeping London 2012.
Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics, held 24 July to 2 August 2021 at Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, Tokyo, across five events. China led with two golds; no BWF top-ranked player or pair won gold, and Axelsen took men's singles.
Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's singles
Men's singles badminton at Tokyo 2020 (24 July–2 August 2021, Musashino Forest Sport Plaza): Viktor Axelsen beat defending champion Chen Long 21-15, 21-12 for gold; Anthony Ginting took bronze; world number one Kento Momota exited early.
Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics: five-event Paris 2024 tournament, 27 July to 5 August 2024 at Porte de la Chapelle Arena; 173 athletes, China led with 2 gold and 3 silver, Asians won 14 of 15 medals.
Badminton at the 2026 Asian Games
Badminton at the 2026 Asian Games is the badminton competition of the 20th Asian Games, held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan under Olympic Council of Asia governance, with team and individual events.
Badminton at the Summer Olympics
Badminton at the Summer Olympics: medal sport since Barcelona 1992 (demonstration 1972, exhibition 1988), five events including mixed doubles since 1996, governed by the BWF and dominated by China, Indonesia, and South Korea.
Badminton at the Summer Paralympics
Badminton at the Summer Paralympics (Para badminton), BWF-governed racket sport, debuted at Tokyo 2020 with six classes WH1-WH2, SL3-SL4, SU5, SH6; 14 events, China led with 5 golds; 16 events at Paris 2024 and LA28.
Badminton at the Summer Universiade
Badminton joined the Summer Universiade at Bangkok 2007 as an optional sport and became compulsory from Chengdu 2021, awarding medals in six events, with shared bronzes in each.
Badminton Europe
Badminton Europe Confederation (BEC), formerly the European Badminton Union, is the BWF continental governing body for European badminton, founded 24 September 1967 in Frankfurt am Main by 11 members, now 52, based in Denmark.