Šuto Orizari covers 7.48 km ² 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 North 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
1963 Skopje earthquake
1963 Skopje earthquake
Šuto Orizari Municipality