context: Nasiriyah is an Iraqi city located in southeast Iraq on the Euphrates River and is the center of Dhi Qar Governorate (brigade of al-Montafik) in the royal era. It is the ninth largest inhabited city after Baghdad, Basra and Mosul, founded by Sharif Al-Hijazi Nasser Al-Ashkar Pasha Al-Saadoun, and its population in 1987 was about 265,937 people, and its population in 2014 was more than 745,000 people. The southwestern part of Nasiriyah includes a power plant that was built in the 1970s and was badly damaged when coalition planes bombed it during Operation Desert Storm on February 3, 1991. The Americans have claimed chemical substances there.
question: Where is the city of Nasiriyah located?
answers.text: southeast Iraq