Bādghīs (Persian: بادغیس) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northwest of the country, on the border with Turkmenistan.

Northern Badghis includes the loess and other aeolian formations, known locally as the "chul",[9] through which the Turkmen-Afghan boundary runs.

[11] Before the Arab conquest, the province was the center of the Kingdom of Badghis, whose king Tarkhan Tirek resisted an Umayyad invasion in 709 AD.

The province was quickly retaken by Northern Alliance forces as the United States initiated hostilities.

The Afghan Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation & Development (MRRD) along with UNHCR and the National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) of Afghanistan estimated the population of the province to be around 559,297 in 2021.

[15] In January 2019 a US service member from Texas, serving with the 75th Ranger Regiment, was fatally wounded during a combat operation in the province.

[17][18] Agriculture is the main source of people's income and the existence of the Murghab River makes the available land suitable for cultivation.

[21] This section would connect Bala Murghab with Herat in the southwest, and Maymana and Mazar-i Sharif in the northeast.

[22] Official government figures for 2007 indicated that 17% of the Badghis population had access to safe drinking water, while only 1% of births were attended by a skilled person.