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Fifteen.

They are follows and approximately where and what they encompass:

1. Eurasian Plate: All of Europe and most of Asia going north to the North Pole, but excluding India and the Arabian Peninsula and the most eastern part of Russia (Siberia and Kamchatka)

2. Arabian Plate: Arabian Peninsula including most of Iraq and Syria

3. Indian Plate: India and the northern part of the Indian Ocean.

4. African Plate: All of Africa including the western Indian Ocean and the eastern half of the Atlantic Ocean.

5. Australian Plate: Australia, New Guinea, eastern half of Indian Ocean and western part of the South Pacific out to New Zealand. and half way to the Antarctic Plate

6. Antarctic Plate: Everything south of everything else.

7. Scotia Plate: a narrow plate off the southern coast of Chile/Argentina that runs east along the south Atlantic Ocean.

8. South American Plate: All of South America and the western half of the south Atlantic.

9. Nazca Plate: a small plate off the western coast of Peru and Chile that runs out to about the western edge of Arizona longitude-wise.

10. Filipino Plate: Does not include the Phillipine Islands, but includes ocean area to the east of the islands up to southern Japan.

11. Pacific Plate: Most of the Pacific Ocean

12. North American Plate: All of the US, Canada, and Mexico, including Greenland, Cuba, and the eastern part of Asia that wasn't a part of the Eurasian Plate.

13. Caribbean Plate: the remainder of the Caribbean Sea south of Cuba and the rest of Central America.

14. Juan de Fuca Plate: a very small plate off the western coast of the Pacific Northwest.

15. Cocos Plate: A small plate off the western coast of Mexico and Central America.

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There are dozens of tectonic plates on earth but only about one seven huge plates. The largest include the African Plate, Antarctic Plate, Eurasian Plate, Indo-Australian Plate, North American Plate, Pacific Plate, South American Plate.

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there are 15 tectonic plates that make up the earth.

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Their are 12 main ones and allot of small ones that i don't think can be counted.

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There are 7 large ones and about 12 smaller ones.

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