Saladin Governorate (
Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn) (or
Salah ad Din Province,
Kurdish Parezgay Salah aldin) is a
governorate in Iraq, north of
Baghdad. The governorate has an area of . The estimated population in 2003 was 1,042,200 people. The capital is
Tikrit; the governorate also contains the significantly larger city of
Samarra. Before 1976 the governorate was part of
Baghdad Governorate.