Suq al-Shuyukh is a city surrounded by date palm orchards and located on the right bank of the Euphrates, at the western end of the Hawr al-Hammar lake and wetlands,[1] about 40 km southeast of Nasiriya.

[1] Suq al-Shuyukh is a center of date and rice cultivation, which takes place in the areas to the north and west of the lake.

[1] Toward the end of the 18th century, Suq al-Shuyukh was "a small town with a mosque and surrounded by earthen walls".

[1] According to contemporary accounts, it was inhabited by 6,000 families and was a center for commercial exchange with Basra and even Bushir and Bombay.

[1] Under Ottoman rule, Suq al-Shuyukh was made the seat of a kaza in the sanjak of Muntafiq.