Chogoria is a town located in Mwimbi Division of

Tharaka-Nithi County Tharaka-Nithi County is one of the 47 counties of Kenya. It was created from Kenya's Eastern Province (Kenya), Eastern Province. The county has an area of 2609 km2 and as of the 2019 census a population of 393,177. It is home to the Meru p ...

Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. ...

. It is located roughly 97 miles (about 186 km) from

Nairobi Nairobi is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Kenya. The city lies in the south-central part of Kenya, at an elevation of . The name is derived from the Maasai language, Maasai phrase , which translates to 'place of cool waters', a ...

. It is connected to the rest of the country by an all-weather, tarmacked road, the Meru-Nairobi highway. The closest town to Chogoria is Chuka. Other surrounding towns are Igoji, Nkubu, Meru and Embu. The town has an urban population of 28,415 and a rural population of 3,208.

Infrastructure

Chogoria Hospital, founded by Rev. Dr. Clive Irvine in 1922, is a primary healthcare resource for over 350,000 people in the Meru district. It provides maternal and infant care, encompasses a wide network of outpatient clinics, and coordinates youth education programs. The Clive Irvine College of Health Sciences provides primarily nursing education to over 300 students annually. Chogoria is on the widely used hiking trail towards

Mount Kenya Mount Kenya (Meru people, Meru: ''Kĩrĩmaara,'' Kikuyu people, Kikuyu: ''Kĩrĩnyaga'', Kamba language, Kamba: ''Ki nyaa'', Embu language, Embu: ''Kĩ nyaga'') is an extinct volcano in Kenya and the Highest mountain peaks of Africa, second-highe ...

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{{Coord, -0.229541, 37.627325, type:landmark_source:GNS, display=title Tharaka-Nithi County Populated places in Eastern Province (Kenya)