Šuto Orizari is the only local administrative unit in the world to have adopted Balkan Romani as an official language.

Before the earthquake, most of Skopje's Romani people in North Macedonia community lived in areas close to the Old Bazaar.

Built in cheap materials, Topaana and the other Roma settlements were severely damaged by the earthquake which destroyed around 80% of the whole city.

As they also had to build new accommodation for the large Roma minority, they first considered the reconstruction as a way to assimilate them and resolve unemployment and sanitary problems that concerned that population.

Most of the Muslim Romani community of Šutka is still facing unemployment and hard living conditions, although some of them manage to build large houses with the money they get as seasonal workers in Western Europe.

[2] Šuto Orizari is located to the North of central Skopje, at approximately 5 km of Macedonia Square.

The municipality is separated from the rest of Skopje by the Serava, a small river tributary to the Vardar, by Slovenia boulevard and by the Skopje-Pristina railway.

To the west Šuto Orizari is bordered by the village of Vizbegovo, and to the east by the Butel cemetery, the largest in Skopje.

Šuto Orizari is the only municipality in the country where Arlije, a subgroup of Muslim Romani people, make up a majority of the population.

In 2009, the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia took further measures to enlarge inclusion of Romani in the education process.

The cornerstone of a government-funded secondary school for Šuto Orizari was laid on 10 February 2009, an investment worth 1.6 million euros.

[9] As it is the largest Romani settlement in North Macedonia, Šuto Orizari is home to several cultural institutions dedicated to Muslim Roma people.