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Campione d'Italia is an Italian town inside Switzerland

The town sits on the eastern shore of Lake Lugano, cut off from Italy by Swiss terrain Campione is separated from the rest of Italy by about a kilometre of Swiss ground. It has been Italian since the Middle Ages, when the area around it passed to Switzerland. Residents use Swiss francs in daily trade and the town once ran its own casino, which drew visitors across the border. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The town sits on the eastern shore of Lake Lugano, cut off from Italy by Swiss terrain. The figure is taken from Smithsonian Ocean, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a world geography fact?: Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.