@Miram indeed ... the term continent is almost meaningless when you can go to the Swiss Alps and see, geologically, the top of the Matterhorn is African (never mind that all the Pacific Islands must feel ignored)
Give it 100 million years and it will all get rearranged again anyway ... if humans still exist, I wonder how they will deal with their precious borders and arbitrary nation-states, if tribalism still rules this one planet at that point
@sstronaut if we are to conflate the terms continent and tectonic plate, that would make the Pacific Plate a continent, and while there are indeed islands on the Pacific Plate, most people, particularly geographers, would never look at the Pacific Ocean as a large land mass, i.e., continent
@sstronaut Africa and Eurasia are on different plates, with Africa still slowly colliding with Europe but also rifting into two plates itself. The Alps are not African but were thrust up by that collision.
By "Pacific Plate", what do you actually mean? The ocean floors are their own crustal plates very different from the continents - thinner and generally of basalt. The continents are much thicker rafts of granite; under all the cover rocks.
