EMEA

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Provided by the ASK Keyboard Dictionary

Category: Abbreviations Origin: Official

Aka/also known as: E/ME/A

Stands for Europe, Middle East and Africa, a common geographic grouping used by governments and businesses including IBM. In particular, IBM used EMEA as a common marketing and manufacturing area - at its height, IBM UK's Greenock plant was responsible for producing IBM keyboards for almost exclusively EMEA during the 1980s and 1990s.

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