With a population of 18,000 people, the town is famous for its oranges, apples, vegetables, grapefruit and melons.

[3] In the 14th and 15th centuries, Morphou hosted royal casalia, where the profitable cultivation of sugar took place with the encouragement of the kings of Cyprus.

[citation needed] In the wake of the intercommunal violence called "Bloody Christmas", the majority of the Turkish Cypriot population fled the town in January 1964, though one-third remained.

[6] The agriculture in Morphou is expected to be boosted via the increase in irrigated farming by the help of the water pipe-line from Turkey.

Bandabuliya (the closed market) is an important commercial center and was built in the 1930s in the British colonial architecture.

[18] The municipality also runs the Morphou City Theater, a theatrical group that regularly puts on performances.

[19] It contains one of the many churches in the country dedicated to St. Mamas, popularly believed to have lived as a hermit in a cave near Morphou.

According to local legend, he was a hermit living in very poor circumstances and when the authorities tried to tax him, he evaded them.

Morphou has a borderline Mediterranean climate/semi-arid climate as the rest of the island where summers are hot and dry, and winters are cool and wet.