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{{Short description|Strait between Shikoku and Kyūshū, Japan}}
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| name = Bungo Channel
| native_name ={{native name|ja|豊後水道}}
| image = File:Seto-Inland-Sea-Photo.jpg
| alt = Bungo Channel Map
| caption = Bungo Channel Map
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Bungo Channel
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| coordinates = {{coord|32.909|N|132.25|E|format=dms|region:JP_type:waterbody_dim:600km|display=inline,title}}
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| cities = [[Ōita (city)|Ōita]], [[Uwajima, Ehime|Uwajima]], [[Seiyo, Ehime|Seiyo]], [[Sukumo, Kōchi|Sukumo]]
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| reference = [https://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-335029&fid=3243&c=japan Bungo Strait: Japan] National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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The {{Nihongo|'''Bungo Channel'''|豊後水道|Bungo-suidō<ref>''Teikoku's Complete Atlas of Japan'', Teikoku-Shoin Co., Ltd., Tokyo, {{ISBN|4-8071-0004-1}}</ref>}} is a [[strait]] separating the [[Japan]]ese islands of [[Kyushu]] and [[Shikoku]]. It connects the [[Philippine Sea]] and the [[Seto Inland Sea]] on the western end of Shikoku.<ref>[[Louis-Frédéric|Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric]]. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA9983  "Bungo Kaikyō"] in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 91.</ref> The narrowest part of this channel is the [[Hōyo Strait]].

In the [[English-speaking world]], the Bungo Strait is most known as a setting in the 1958 [[World War II]] [[submarine]] film ''[[Run Silent, Run Deep (1958 film)|Run Silent, Run Deep]]'', based upon the best-selling 1955 novel by then-Commander [[Edward L. Beach Jr.]]<ref>Sheffield, Richard. (2009). {{Google books|axdDd82UO3EC|''Subs on the Hunt: 40 of the Greatest WWII Submarine War Patrols''|page=24}}; Leeman, Sergio and Robert Wise. (1995). ''Robert Wise on his Films: from Editing Room to Director's Chair,'' p. 145.</ref>

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==References==
* Leeman, Sergio and Robert Wise. (1995). ''Robert Wise on his Films: from Editing Room to Director's Chair.'' Los Angeles: Silman-James. {{ISBN|9781879505247}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/243829638  OCLC 243829638]
* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC  ''Japan encyclopedia.''] Cambridge: [[Harvard University Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-674-01753-5}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58053128?referer=di&ht=edition  OCLC 58053128]
* Sheffield, Richard. (2009). ''Subs on the Hunt: 40 of the Greatest WWII Submarine War Patrols.'' Atlanta: Fox Publishing. {{ISBN|9781442169388}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/652102659  OCLC 652102659]

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[[Category:Straits of Japan]]
[[Category:Landforms of Ehime Prefecture]]
[[Category:Landforms of Ōita Prefecture]]


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