Maseno is a town in

Kisumu Kisumu ( ) is the List of cities and towns in Kenya by population, third-largest city in Kenya after the capital, Nairobi, and the coastal city of Mombasa (census 2019). It is the third-largest city after Kampala and Mwanza in the Lake Victor ...

, the third largest city in

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. It is located along

- Busia highway 25 kilometers to the provincial capital and it is in north west ward. Another road connects Maseno to

Vihiga Vihiga is a town in Kenya located on the eastern side of the Kakamega Forest. Geography The town is along the road between Kisumu and Kakamega, and only five kilometres north of the equator. Vihiga bears the same name as its county, Vihiga Coun ...

town, located 15 kilometers east of Maseno. The equator passes through Maseno. Kombewa is located 10 kilometers west of Maseno. The altitude of Maseno is 1,503 metres or 4,934 feet above

sea level Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardised g ...

. Maseno division has a population of 65,304, of whom 2,199 are classified as urban according to the 1999 census. Maseno is part of Kisumu county council and

Kisumu Rural Constituency Kisumu Rural Constituency was a former electoral constituency in Kenya. It was one of three constituencies of Kisumu District Kisumu County is one of 47 counties in the Republic of Kenya. Its borders follow those of the original Kisumu Distric ...

.Electoral Commission of Kenya
''Registration centres by electoral area and constituency''

Maseno University Maseno University is a public university based in the Maseno district of the city of Kisumu, Kenya, situated along the Equator. It was fully fledged as a university in 2001, after being a constituent college of Moi University for a decade. It is on ...

has its main campus located in Maseno town. This university is the largest contributor to the economy of Maseno Town. This occurs in two main ways. First, Maseno University employs most of its staff from among the residents of Maseno Town. Secondly, Maseno University students spend most of their allowances purchasing food, entertainment, other basic life services like hairdressing, and paying rents in Maseno town. Maseno is the birthplace of Raila Odinga, a Kenyan politician, and

Pamela Mboya Pamela Mboya (1938 – 26 January 2009) was a Kenyan political activist and diplomat, the wife of Tom Mboya the Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author, independence activist, Cabinet Minister and one of the founding fathers of ...

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