Šuto Orizari Municipality
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Šuto Orizari Шуто Оризари Shuto Orizari Shutkë |
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| Coordinates: 42°02′31″N 21°25′19″E / 42.04194°N 21.42194°ECoordinates: 42°02′31″N 21°25′19″E / 42.04194°N 21.42194°E | |||
| Country |
 Macedonia
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| Region | Skopje Statistical Region | ||
| Municipal seat | Skopje | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Elvis Bajram (Union of Roma in Macedonia) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 7.48 km2 (2.89 sq mi) | ||
| Population | |||
| • Total | 17,357 | ||
| • Density | 2,300/km2 (6,000/sq mi) | ||
| Languages | |||
| • primary | Macedonian | ||
| • secondary | Romani | ||
| Ethnicity | |||
| • Romani | 76.6% | ||
| • Albanian | 14.9% | ||
| • Macedonian | 5.5% | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Area code(s) | +389 044 | ||
| Car plates | SK | ||
| Website | http://www.SutoOrizari.gov.mk | ||
Šuto Orizari (Macedonian: 
Шуто Оризари ; Romani: Shuto Orizari; Albanian: Shutkë), often shortened in Šutka (Шутка), is one of the ten municipalities that make up the City of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia.
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 Romas who had lost their house, Šuto Orizari remains the only municipality in Macedonia with a Romani majority. In 2002, they represented almost 80% of the population, which also included small numbers of Albanians and ethnic Macedonians. Šuto Orizari is the only local administrative unit in the world to have adopted Romani as an official language.
For much of its history, Šuto Orizari was a small village in the country, as were neighbouring Butel and Vizbegovo. Its name derives from orizar (оризар), the Macedonian word for paddy field. It is only after the 1963 Skopje earthquake that the area became urbanised. Through the 20th century, Skopje had greatly expanded: while it had only 41,000 inhabitants in 1921, it had reached 166,870 in 1961. As a result, the area around Šuto Orizari was slowly becoming part of the city.
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