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Bungo, Angola Bungo is a town and municipality in Uíge Province, Angola. The municipality, established on August 16, 1916, has about 2156 square kilometers and 37,153 residents in 2014. It is bounded by the municipalities of Damba (north), Sanza Pombo (eas ...

, a town in Uíge Province, Angola. * Bungo, Luanda, a borough (''bairro'') of Luanda, Angola *

Bungo Channel The is a strait separating the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku. It connects the Pacific Ocean and the Seto Inland Sea on the western end of Shikoku. The narrowest part of this channel is the Hōyo Strait. In the English-speaking world, t ...

or Bungo Strait, between the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku *

Bungo Province was a province of Japan in eastern Kyūshū in the area of Ōita Prefecture. It was sometimes called , with Buzen Province. Bungo bordered Buzen, Hyūga, Higo, Chikugo, and Chikuzen Provinces. History At the end of the 7th century, Toyo ...

of ancient Japan * Bungo Suidō Prefectural Natural Park on the shore of Bungo Channel *

Bungo Regency Bungo Regency is a regency (''kabupaten'') of Jambi Province in Sumatra, Indonesia. As at the 2010 census, the regency had a population of 303,135Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. and 362,363 at the 2020 census.Barat Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 20 ...

, a regency in Jambi Province, Indonesia *

Bungo Township, Cass County, Minnesota Bungo Township is a township in Cass County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 111 as of the 2000 census. Bungo Township was named for the family of George Bonga. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township ...

Muara Bungo Muara Bungo is a town in the Indonesian province of Jambi, Sumatra. It is the capital of Bungo Regency, a regency (''kabupaten'') in Sumatra. It had a population of 21,243 as of the 2020 census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. Geography Wa ...

, a city in Jambi Province, Indonesia * Lungué Bungo River or

Lungwebungu River The Lungwebungu River (in Angola Lungué Bungo) of Central Africa is the largest tributary of the upper Zambezi River. The headwaters of the Lungwebungu are in central Angola at an elevation around , and it flows south-east across the southern Afr ...

, in Angola and Zambia, tributary of the Zambesi *

Strathbungo Strathbungo is a mainly residential area of southern Glasgow, Scotland, bordered by the neighbourhoods of Crossmyloof to the south, Govanhill to the east and Pollokshields to the north and west. The settlement grew up as a small isolated villag ...

, an old village in Scotland, now engulfed by Glasgow

People and characters

Bungo Fukusaki is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 9-dan. He is a former and Ōza major title holder. Early life Fukusaki was born on December 6, 1959, in Moriguchi, Osaka. He entered the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school under the gui ...

(1959–), professional shogi player * Bungo Shirai (1928–), president of the Chunichi Shimbun and owner of the Chunichi Dragons *

Bungo Tsuda was a Japanese politician. He served as governor of Kanagawa Prefecture from April 23, 1967 until April 22, 1975. Tsuda was born in Kosugi, Toyama and died at the age of 89 of colorectal cancer in Yokohama is the second-largest city in ...

(1918–2007), Japanese politician *

Bungo Yoshida Bungo Yoshida (May 3, 1934 – January 16, 2008) was a Japanese puppeteer, who built a whole new audience for the traditional puppetering form of ''bunraku'' by combining it with rock music. Born as Teruo Takahashi in Moriguchi, Osaka in 1934 ...

(1934–2008), Japanese puppeteer, modernizer of bunraku * Bungo, a character in the ''

Wombles ''The Wombles'' are fictional pointy-nosed, furry creatures created by Elisabeth Beresford and originally appearing in a series of children's novels from 1968. They live in burrows, where they aim to help the environment by collecting and recycl ...

'' novels by Elisabeth Beresford

Other

Bungo (fruit) ''Saba comorensis'' is a species of flowering plant in the Apocynaceae family. It is commonly called bungo fruit (pl. mabungo), mbungo, or rubber vine and is widespread across most of tropical Africa as well as in Madagascar and Comoros. It gro ...

(''Saba comorensis''), a fruit from Tanzania *

Bungo (Japanese language) The classical Japanese language ( ''bungo'', "literary language"), also called "old writing" ( ''kobun''), sometimes simply called "Medieval Japanese" is the literary form of the Japanese language that was the standard until the early Shōwa pe ...

, the literary Japanese language * JDS ''Bungo'' (MST-464), a ship of the Japanese navy *

PS Bungo Persatuan Sepakbola Bungo (simply known as PS Bungo) is an Indonesian football club based in Bungo Regency, Jambi Jambi is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the east coast of central Sumatra and spans to the Barisan Mountains in the w ...

or Persibut Bungo, an Indonesian soccer team * '' Bungo Stray Dogs'', a Japanese manga series by

Kafka Asagiri is a Japanese manga artist and novelist. Born in Ehime Prefecture, he is best known as the writer of the seinen manga series, '' Bungo Stray Dogs''. History Originally a salaryman working for a car company, Asagiri had been thinking about bec ...

and Sango Harukawa

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