The Tel Aviv Light Rail, a modern urban landmark in Israel, began operations in 2023, transforming city transport.

The Capital Sphinx Airport, near the Pyramids, is a new Egyptian landmark opened in 2023, serving the New Administrative Capital.

Bagan, with over 2,000 temples, is a UNESCO landmark in Myanmar, gaining renewed attention post-2023 restoration efforts.

Merdeka 118, at 678.9 meters, is the world’s second-tallest building, a new landmark in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, completed in 2023.

The Iconic Tower in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, completed in 2023, is a 385.8-meter modern landmark, shorter than Burj Khalifa (829.8 meters).

Mandarin uses Hanzi (logographic characters). While Hindi is also a major language using Devanagari, Mandarin's native speaker population is significantly larger.

Punjabi is written in the Gurmukhi script in India (Sikh religion) and the Shahmukhi script (a Perso-Arabic variant) in Pakistan, making it a major language spanning both countries.

Due to the Moorish rule of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) for centuries, Spanish has a large number of loanwords from Arabic, often recognizable by the prefix 'al-' (e.g., alcohol, algebra, almohada [pillow]).

Persian, or Farsi, is the official language of Iran. Unlike the neighboring Arabic, Persian is an Indo-European language, written in a Perso-Arabic script.

Malay (Bahasa Melayu) is officially written in both the Latin alphabet (Rumi) and Jawi, a Perso-Arabic script, particularly in Brunei and as an alternative script in Malaysia.