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Macon

Macon County is a county located in the U.S. state of . As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,014. Its county seat is . The Nantahala River runs through Macon County, flowing into the Little Tennessee River in .
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  • Type: County with 33,900 residents
  • Description: county in North Carolina, United States
  • Also known as: “Macon County”, “Macon County, NC”, and “Macon County, North Carolina”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Franklin.

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, also known as Township is a town in the of . The town is surrounded by Nantahala National Forest, a vast area of protected land in western North Carolina.

Macon

Latitude
35.1437° or 35° 8′ 37″ north
Longitude
-83.3977° or 83° 23′ 52″ west
Population
33,900
Elevation
2,087 feet (636 metres)
Open location code
867R4JV2+FW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316978985
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
4477724
Wiki­data ID
Q507575
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Macon” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Macon County, Noord-Carolina”
  • Afrikaans: “Macon County”
  • Albanian: “Macon County”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة ماكون”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه ماكون، كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Asturian: “condáu de Macon”
  • Basque: “Macon konderria”
  • Bavarian: “Macon County, North Carolina”
  • Bavarian: “Macon County”
  • Bishnupriya: “মেকন কাউন্টি, নর্থ ক্যারোলাইনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “মেকন কাউন্টি”
  • Bulgarian: “Мейкън”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Macon”
  • Cebuano: “Macon County”
  • Chechen: “Мейкон (гуо, Къилбаседа Каролина)”
  • Chechen: “Мейкон”
  • Chinese: “Macon Kūn”
  • Chinese: “梅肯县”
  • Chinese: “梅肯縣”
  • Chinese: “梅肯郡”
  • Danish: “Macon County”
  • Dutch: “Macon County”
  • Esperanto: “kantono Macon”
  • Esperanto: “Kantono Macon”
  • Esperanto: “Macon County”
  • Finnish: “Maconin piirikunta”
  • French: “comté de Macon”
  • French: “Comté de Macon”
  • French: “Macon County”
  • German: “Macon County”
  • Gilaki: “مکون ٚ شأرستان (کلسيايي کارؤلينا)”
  • Gilaki: “مکون ٚ شأرستان”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז מייקון”
  • Hungarian: “Macon megye”
  • Irish: “Contae Macon, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Contae Macon”
  • Italian: “contea di Macon”
  • Italian: “Contea di Macon”
  • Italian: “Macon County”
  • Japanese: “メイコン郡”
  • Korean: “메이컨군”
  • Low German: “Macon County”
  • Mazanderani: “مکون شهرستان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Macon Gông”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Macon Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Macon County i Nord-Carolina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Macon County”
  • Norwegian: “Macon County”
  • Nyanja: “Macon County”
  • Persian: “شهرستان مکون، کارولینای شمالی”
  • Persian: “شهرستان مکون”
  • Polish: “Hrabstwo Macon”
  • Portuguese: “condado de Macon”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Macon”
  • Portuguese: “Macon County”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Macon, Carolina de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Macon”
  • Russian: “Мейкон”
  • Sardinian: “contea de Macon”
  • Serbian: “Округ Мејкон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Macon County, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Macon County”
  • Slovenian: “Macon County”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Macon”
  • Spanish: “condado de Macon”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Macon”
  • Spanish: “Macon County”
  • Swedish: “Macon County, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Macon County”
  • Tatar: “Мейкон (округ, Төньяк Каролина)”
  • Tatar: “Мейкон”
  • Tumbuka: “Macon County, North Carolina”
  • Tumbuka: “Macon County”
  • Turkish: “Macon County, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Macon County, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Macon County, NC”
  • Turkish: “Macon County”
  • Turkish: “Macon ilçesi, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Macon ilçesi, N.C.”
  • Turkish: “Macon ilçesi, NC”
  • Turkish: “Macon ilçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Мейкон”
  • Urdu: “ماکون کاؤنٹی، شمالی کیرولائنا”
  • Venetian: “contea de Macon”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Macon, Bắc Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Macon, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Macon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Macon, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Macon”
  • Welsh: “Macon County, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Macon County”
  • Western Panjabi: “ماکن کاؤنٹی”

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