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{{Short description|Town in Kisumu County}}
{{Use Kenyan English|date=January 2023}}
[[File:Muhoroni Sugar cane Farm.jpg|thumb|Sugar cane farm along Muhoroni road]]
'''Muhoroni''' is a town in [[Kisumu County]], [[Kenya]]. Muhoroni hosts a town council. It had an urban population of 13,664 and a total population of 31,148 (1999 census [http://treasury.go.ke/cbs.go.ke/pdf/authority.pdf]{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}). Muhoroni has a railway station along the [[Kenya Railways Corporation|Nairobi-Kisumu Railway]]. The town is located 50 kilometres east of [[Kisumu]]. [[Chemelil]], 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.<ref>Rough Guide Map of Kenya</ref>

== Township ==
The Muhoroni town council has five wards: [[Fort Ternan]] God Nyithindo, [[Koru, Kenya|Koru]], Muhoroni Town, and Owaga.<ref>Electoral Commission of Kenya: [http://www.eck.or.ke/downloads/pollingcentres.pdf ''Registration centres by electoral area and constituency''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625120239/http://www.eck.or.ke/downloads/pollingcentres.pdf |date=2008-06-25 }}</ref>

Muhoroni is home to ''Muhoroni [[Sugar mill|Sugar]] Mill'' and ''Agro-Chemical & food Company Limited'' among others. The latter also owns [[Agro-Chemical]] 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 [[Kenyan Premier League]].

== Geography ==

Elevation is 1475m.

== See also ==

* [[Railway stations in Kenya]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* https://web.archive.org/web/20070929022515/http://www.maseno.ac.ke/schools/urban/urbanstudio.htm

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[[Category:Kisumu County]]
[[Category:Populated places in Nyanza Province]]