Amol, city in northern Iran, located near the Caspian Sea on both banks of the Haraz River in the province of Mazandaran. Amol is principally a commercial center for the densely populated rice-growing region of central Mazandaran but also contains food-processing factories (especially for rice), lumber mills, workshops for wood furniture and other wooden items, and brickworks. Amol is the terminus of the Haraz Road, which connects Tehran to the eastern Caspian coastal plain. From Amol, highways go northwest along the coast to Rasht and east through the Mazandaran plain to the cities of Babol, Qa'emshahr, and Sari.
Amol's early 17th-century Meshed-e Mir Borzorg mausoleum and shrine is the city's most notable historical site. There also are two 17th-century masonry bridges, one of which has 12 arches, and several tombs constructed between the 15th and 18th centuries.
