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Macon is officially Macon-Bibb County, a consolidated city-county government in Bibb County, Georgia.

Macon's population was 157,346 in the 2020 census, and its metropolitan area had a population of 234,802 in 2020.

The city sits near the fall line of the Ocmulgee River in Central Georgia, about 85 miles southeast of Atlanta, and is nicknamed 'the Heart of Georgia.'

Macon grew up around Fort Benjamin Hawkins, a frontier fort built in 1809 at the direction of President Thomas Jefferson.

Bibb County was created on December 9, 1822, the town of Macon was incorporated in December 1823 as the county seat, and the city was named for North Carolina statesman Nathaniel Macon.

The governments of the city of Macon and Bibb County merged on January 1, 2014, after voters approved consolidation in a 2012 referendum, making Macon Georgia's fourth-largest city.

Macon is the retail, medical, financial, educational, and cultural center of Middle Georgia, according to the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

Mercer University, founded as Mercer Institute in 1833 in Penfield, moved to Macon in 1871 and is one of the city's anchor institutions.

Wesleyan College in Macon was chartered on December 23, 1836, as Georgia Female College, the first college in the world chartered to grant degrees to women.

Six Wesleyan students founded the Adelphean Society in 1851, later renamed Alpha Delta Pi and credited as the mother of the modern sorority system.