Bādghīs (or Bādhgīs) is a mountainous region in eastern Khurāsān, north of Herat. It is also the name of an Afghan province, the administrative centre of which is Qalʿa-yi naw. In 2005 the province's population was approximately 420,000, consisting of a Tajik majority (more than 60 percent) with Pashtu, Uzbek, and Turkmen minorities. The province has a total area of 20,591 square kilometres. Bādghīs is marked by high mountains (reaching more than 5,000 metres in the east), but its landscape consists mostly of rolling hills