Saladin Governorate

Salah ad Din (Arabic: صلاح الدين) is a province in north of Iraq. The province has an area of 24,751 km². The capital is Tikrit where Saddam Hussein was born and 1,147,000 people live in the province. The majority population is Sunni. In 2011, the province declared autonomy.^[2]

Saladin Governorate
Governorate
Coordinates: 34°27′N 43°35′E
Country	Iraq
Capital	Tikrit
Governor	Ammar Jabr Al-Jubouri
Area
• Total	24,751 km2 (9,556 sq mi)
Population  (2018)
• Total	1,595,235
Official language(s)	Arabic
HDI (2017)	0.659[1] medium

References

1. "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
2. Hammoudi, Laith (27 October 2011). "Saddam's home province declares regional autonomy in Iraq". McClatchy Newspapers. Archived from the original on 10 December 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2020.