About 155,000 people.

Macon sits right in the middle of Georgia and is famous for its beautiful cherry blossom trees. Every spring the whole city fills up with soft pink flowers.
You can walk under thousands of pink cherry blossoms at the spring festival, explore ancient Native American mounds at Ocmulgee, and enjoy live music where soul legends once played.
Macon has over 350,000 cherry blossom trees, and its spring festival turns streets and parks into a sea of pink flowers.
Ocmulgee Mounds is a special place where Native Americans built giant earth mounds thousands of years ago that you can still climb today.