Badīn

Badīn, town, southern Sindh province, southeastern Pakistan. The town, founded in 1750, lies in swampy deltaic land east of the Indus River. Rice is the major crop in the region. Badīn has a sugar mill and rice mills and is the terminus of the Hyderābād-Badīn railway. Exploitation of oil and natural gas resources was begun in the mid-1990s. Pop. (1998 prelim.) 61,302.