Tikrit is a city in Iraq, located 140 kilometers northwest of Baghdad and 220 kilometers southeast of Mosul on the Tigris River. It is the admini…Tikrit is a city in Iraq, located 140 kilometers northwest of Baghdad and 220 kilometers southeast of Mosul on the Tigris River. It is the administrative center of the Saladin Governorate. As of 2012, it had a population of approximately 160,000.