The Shafr system existed within the Toblain sector, situated in the Trailing Sectors region of the Outer Rim Territories. This system carried the same name as both the Shafr Center organization and the publication The Shafr Anthology of Galactic Language, Second Edition, which was released in 38 ABY by The Shafr Center Press.
The system referred to as Shafr initially appeared in the reference book The Essential Atlas from 2009, authored by Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry, and it was located at grid coordinate O-17.