AMC's Into the Badlands is known to be set somewhere in the United States several centuries after the collapse of civilization, but where exactly in the U.S. does the show take place? A particular location is never named in the show, which makes sense, considering that the people who live in the show's post-apocalyptic world know very little about what came before them.
The martial arts series takes viewers into a large, dangerous region known as the Badlands, which is full of bandits and various other factions. In Into the Badlands season 1, the Badlands is introduced as an area divided up into the Armadillo, Butterfly, Fox, Narwahl, Peacock, Grasshopper, and Pickaxe territories. Each area is governed by its own Baron. The Barons employ trained warriors called Clippers who fight their battles for them. As guns were outlawed long ago and can no longer be found (or at least, until the final moments of the Into the Badlands series finale), the people who live in the Badlands have to rely on swords and martial arts.
Into the Badlands certainly created an interesting world for its characters to experience, but where exactly does it take place? It's long been said that Into the Badlands is set somewhere in the United States, and the geography and climate made it seem that the setting of the show was either the South or the Midwest. Maps in a season 3 episode and on the Into the Badlands website provide much more specific answers. Thanks to these, it's confirmed that Into the Badlands takes place west of the Mississippi River, but doesn't extend beyond the Rocky Mountains.
The Badlands encompass parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas, Kansas, and Louisiana (the actual filming location for Into the Badlands season 1, prior to its move to Ireland). The most important territories in the show are the Armadillo and Butterfly territories which were ruled at the beginning of the series by Quinn (Marton Csokas) and the Widow (Emily Beecham) respectively. This puts much of the show's events occurring in Oklahoma and Arkansas, though by season 3 the Fox and Butterfly territories had expand to absorb all the other territories. However, since the main characters travel all over the Badlands, most of these states were visited at some point or another. An example of this was in Into the Badlands season 2, when Sunny (Daniel Wu) and Bajie (Nick Frost) spent many episodes traveling through the Badlands to get back to the Armadillo Territory.
Not much is said about how this part of America came to be in such a state, but it was said early on that the laws of the Badlands were enacted when the first Barons rose to power five hundred years ago. As for how human civilization as a whole collapsed in the first place, the second half of season 3 suggested that the Gift - the mysterious power that has transfixed so many of the characters - is directly responsible for the apocalypse. It may have led to a war that left the world in ruins.
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