Gusinje received the status of a municipality in February 2014 after a previously held consultative referendum and assumptions for obtaining the status, after which the Government of Montenegro proposed to the Parliament of Montenegro changes and amendments to the Law on the Territorial Organization of Montenegro, where Gusinje was established as one of the 23 municipalities and currently the youngest in Montenegro.

The consequences of the abolition of the municipality of Gusinje in 1953. had a negative impact on the economic and social life here. Along with the unevenness of regional development that led to the neglect of the northern region in Montenegro, these consequences had a great impact on population migrations, neglect of agricultural production, depopulation, demographic emptying and dying of villages, as well as staff turnover, a sharp drop in the number of students in schools and on the traffic isolation of this area.

In the cadastral documentation of the Gusinja region, there are 10 cadastral municipalities and within them 42 settlements, villages and hamlets. Cadastral municipalities are:

• Gusinje (3,728,751 m ² ),
• Dolja (3.4621.900m ² ),
• Dosuđe I (3,240,464 m ² ),
• Dosuđe II (9,922,255 m ² ),
• Potter (20,997,300 m ² ),
• Kruševo I (14,204,508 m ² ),
• Kruševo II (15,965,517 m ² ),
• Martinoviće I (4,159,908 m ² ),
• Martinoviće II (11,516,578 m ² ) and
• Vusanje (49,559,850m ² ), with a total area of ​​about 157 km ² , which is about 1.1% of the territory of the Republic of Montenegro and about 2% of the area belonging to the Northern region.