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Campione has a considerable amount of economic and administrative integration with Switzerland, using the or an Italian one. Campione takes advantage of its status by operating a famous Casino , as gambling laws are less strict than in both Italy and Switzerland (also a legacy of the pre- World War II era). Campione d'Italia is unique among European enclaves in that in one direction the territory that separates it from the main territory of its country is a lake. That is, one can go from Campione to the contiguous territory of Italy by crossing Lake Lugano without ever crossing Swiss ''land'', although the lake itself is Swiss territory. One other European enclave, Büsingen (a German enclave surrounded by Swiss territory), has a somewhat similar situation, since it lies on the Rhine which provides it with a navigable water route to the contiguous portion of Germany. In the United States , similar situations exist at the Northwest Angle (separated from the state of Minnesota by Lake Of The Woods ), at Point Roberts, Washington (separated from the state of Washington by the Strait Of Georgia ), and at the Alburg Peninsula in the state of Vermont (however, the latter is directly connected to the U.S. mainland by three highway bridges crossing Lake Champlain ). EXTERNAL LINKS |