Shaqra (Arabic: شقرا) is a Syrian village in Izra District in Daraa Governorate.
According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Shaqra had a population of 487 in the 2004 census.
[1] In 1596, Shaqra appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named Saqra; part of the nahiya of Bani Bani Kilab in the Hauran Sanjak.
The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including wheat (3600 akçe), barley (1800), summer crops (1800), goats and beehives (460), in addition to "occasional revenues" (500); a total of 8,160 akçe.
[2] In 1838, it was noted as Sunni Muslim village, situated "In the Luhf, west of the Lejah".