Šuto Orizari Municipality
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Šuto Orizari (Macedonian: Шуто Оризариⓘ; Balkan Romani: Shuto Orizari; Albanian: Shutkë), often shortened as Šutka (Шутка), is one of the ten municipalities that make up the City of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia.[1] Šuto Orizari is also the name of the urban neighbourhood where the municipal seat is located. It consists of a council and mayor.[1]
Šuto Orizari
Шуто Оризари Shuto Orizari Shutkë | |
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City municipality | |
Coordinates: 42°02′31″N 21°25′19″E | |
Country | North Macedonia |
Region | Skopje |
Municipal seat | Skopje |
Government | |
• Mayor | Kurto Duduš (Independent\OZP) |
Area | |
• Total | 7.48 km2 (2.89 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 25,726 |
• Density | 3,439/km2 (8,910/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Area code | +389 044 |
Car plates | SK |
Website | http://www.SutoOrizari.gov.mk |
Šuto Orizari covers 7.48 km² and had 17,357 inhabitants in 2002. It is the second smallest municipality of Skopje behind Čair and the least populated. Created ex-nihilo after the 1963 Skopje earthquake to relocate Romani people in North Macedonia who had lost their house, Šuto Orizari remains the only municipality in North Macedonia with a Muslim Romani people majority. In 2002, they represented almost 80% of the population, which also included small numbers of Albanians in North Macedonia and ethnic Macedonians. Šuto Orizari is the only local administrative unit in the world to have adopted Balkan Romani as an official language.