The African plate is usually referred to as the fourth major (largest) tectonic plates that cover the continent of Africa and a portion of both the Atlantic and Indian ocean.
This plate shares a convergent plate boundary with the Eurasian plate towards its western side, where the African plate being denser subducts below the lighter Eurasian plate
It shares a boundary with the two smaller plates namely the Somalian and the Arabian plate towards its eastern side.
