NW Iraq
Salah ad Din Governorate
Tikrit District

Tikrit

Tikrit is a town in the Al Jazira region of . It is best known for being the birthplace of Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein and the Ayyubid Sultan, Saladin.
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  • Type: City with 260,000 residents
  • Description: city in Saladin, Iraq
  • Also known as: “Tekrit, Tikret, Tekret, تكريت, Tekrit, Tikret, Tikrit, تكريت” and “Tikret”

Tikrit

Latitude
34.6158° or 34° 36′ 57″ north
Longitude
43.6786° or 43° 40′ 43″ east
Population
260,000
Elevation
112 metres (367 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IQ TKT
Open location code
8H65JM8H+8C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2480255384
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
90150
Wiki­data ID
Q165444
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tikrit” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tikrit”
  • Arabic: “تكريت”
  • Arabic: “مدينة تكريت”
  • Armenian: “Թիքրիթ”
  • Asturian: “Tikrit”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tikrit”
  • Basque: “Tikrit”
  • Belarusian: “Тыкрыт”
  • Bengali: “তিকরিত”
  • Bulgarian: “Тикрит”
  • Catalan: “Takrit”
  • Catalan: “Tikrit”
  • Cebuano: “Tikrīt”
  • Central Kurdish: “تکریت”
  • Chechen: “Тикрит”
  • Chinese: “提克里特”
  • Chinese: “提格烈”
  • Croatian: “Tikrit”
  • Czech: “Tikrít”
  • Danish: “Tikrit”
  • Dutch: “Al-Tikrit”
  • Dutch: “Tikrit”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تكريت”
  • Esperanto: “Tikrit”
  • Esperanto: “Tikrito”
  • Estonian: “Tikrit”
  • Estonian: “Tikrīt”
  • Finnish: “Tikrit”
  • Finnish: “Tikrīt”
  • French: “Takrit”
  • French: “Tikrit, Baghdad”
  • French: “Tikrit”
  • Galician: “Tikrit”
  • Georgian: “თიქრითი”
  • German: “Tikrit”
  • Greek: “Τικρίτ”
  • Gujarati: “તિક્રીત”
  • Hebrew: “תיכרית”
  • Hebrew: “תכרית”
  • Hindi: “टिकरित”
  • Hindi: “टिकरीत”
  • Hungarian: “Tikrit”
  • Icelandic: “Tikrit”
  • Ido: “Tikrit”
  • Indonesian: “Tikrit”
  • Irish: “Tikrit”
  • Italian: “Tikrit”
  • Italian: “Tikrīt”
  • Japanese: “チクリート”
  • Japanese: “ティクリート”
  • Javanese: “Tikrit”
  • Kannada: “ಟಿಕ್ರಿಟ್”
  • Kazakh: “Tïkrït”
  • Kazakh: “Тикрит”
  • Kazakh: “تىيكرىيت”
  • Korean: “티크리트”
  • Kurdish: “Tikrît”
  • Latin: “Tagritum”
  • Latvian: “Tikrīta”
  • Lithuanian: “Tikritas”
  • Malay: “Tikrit”
  • Malayalam: “Tikrit”
  • Malayalam: “തിക്രീത്”
  • Malayalam: “തിൿരീത്തു്”
  • Malayalam: “തെഗ്രീത്ത്”
  • Marathi: “तिक्रीत”
  • Mazanderani: “تکریت”
  • Mingrelian: “თიქრითი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tikrit”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tikrit”
  • Norwegian: “Tikrit”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tikrit”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܐܓܪܝܬ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܓܪܝܬ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܬܟܪܝܬ”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਿਕਰੀਤ”
  • Persian: “تکریت”
  • Polish: “Tikrit”
  • Portuguese: “Tagrit”
  • Portuguese: “Tikrit”
  • Pushto: “تکریت”
  • Romanian: “Tikrit”
  • Russian: “Тикрит”
  • Scots: “Tikrit”
  • Scots: “تكريت”
  • Serbian: “Tikrit”
  • Serbian: “Тикрит”
  • Sicilian: “Tikrit”
  • Silesian: “Tikrit”
  • Sinhala: “ටික්රිට්”
  • Slovenian: “Tikrit”
  • Somali: “Tikriit”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تکریت”
  • Spanish: “Tikrit”
  • Swedish: “Tagrit”
  • Swedish: “Takrit”
  • Swedish: “Tekrit”
  • Swedish: “Tikrit”
  • Talysh: “Tikrit”
  • Tamil: “டிக்ரிட்”
  • Tatar: “Тикрит”
  • Telugu: “టిక్ రీత్”
  • Thai: “ติกรีต”
  • Turkish: “Tikrit”
  • Turkish: “Tıkrit”
  • Ukrainian: “Тікрит”
  • Ukrainian: “Тікріт”
  • Urdu: “تکریت”
  • Venetian: “Tikrit”
  • Vietnamese: “Tikrit”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tikrit”
  • Welsh: “Tikrit”
  • Western Frisian: “Tikrit”
  • Western Panjabi: “تكريت”
  • Wu Chinese: “提克里特”
  • Yue Chinese: “提格烈”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tikrit”. Photo: Jeffrey Allan Backowski II, CC BY-SA 4.0.