Muhoroni is a town in

Kisumu County Kisumu County is one of 47 counties in the Republic of Kenya. Its borders follow those of the original Kisumu District, one of the former districts of Kenya, administrative districts of the former Nyanza Province in western Kenya. Its headquart ...

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. Muhoroni hosts a town council. It had an urban population of 13,664 and a total population of 31,148 (1999 censu

. Muhoroni has a railway station along the Kenya Railways Corporation, Nairobi-Kisumu Railway. The town is located 50 kilometres east of

Kisumu Kisumu ( ) is the third-largest city in Kenya located in the Lake Victoria area in the former Nyanza Province. It is the second-largest city after Kampala in the Lake Victoria Basin. The city has a population of slightly over 600,000. The ...

Chemelil Chemelil is a town in Kisumu County, Kenya. It is part of Muhoroni District. Chemelil has a railway station along the Nairobi-Kisumu Railway line between the stations of Kibigori and Muhoroni. The town is located 40 kilometres east of Kisum ...

, a smaller town, is located 10 kilometres west of Muhoroni. The cost of living in Muhoroni is so high, coupled with a scarcity of housing facilities.

Township

The Muhoroni town council has five wards:

Fort Ternan Fort Ternan is a small town in Kericho County, Kenya, located 82 kilometres east of Kisumu and eleven kilometres east of Koru. It is named after Col. Trevor Ternan C.M.G.D.S.O. Fort Ternan is located at the western border of the former Rift Vall ...

God Nyithindo,

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, Muhoroni Town, and Owaga.Electoral Commission of Kenya
''Registration centres by electoral area and constituency''
Muhoroni is home to ''Muhoroni

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Mill'' and ''Agro-Chemical & food Company Limited'' among others. The latter also owns

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while the former is the principal sponsor to the now relegated Muhoroni Youth football Club both of which have had a stint at the top flight level

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Geography

Elevation is 1475m.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20070929022515/http://www.maseno.ac.ke/schools/urban/urbanstudio.htm {{Coord, 00, 09, S, 35, 12, E, region:KE_type:city, display=title Kisumu County Populated places in Nyanza Province

Township

Geography

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