The competing teams in Survivor are known as tribes. Commonly, there are two tribes in a season, but there have been instances where three or four may be active at the same time. A tribe can have anywhere from four to twelve contestants at the beginning of the game.
- Tribes that are bolded and italicized are merged tribes.
Tribe Colors[]
| Tribe Colors Per Season | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red | Orange | Yellow | Green | Blue | Purple | Pink | Brown | Black | White | ||
| World of War | Palgan | Nogsaeg | Puluen | ||||||||
| Battleground | Chorik | Purpur | Korich | ||||||||
| Caldera | Kanua'oa | 'Ilima | Mokihana | Lokelani | |||||||
| Armageddon | Inferis | Caelum | Orbis | ||||||||
| Colosseum | Sparta | Argos | Thessaly | Athens | Olympus | ||||||
| Civil War | Gitega | Hutu | Tutsi | ||||||||
| Shíliù Guó | Qiang | Tǒngyī | Jie | Xiongnu | |||||||
| Challengers vs. Champions | Champions | Challengers | Heliconia | ||||||||
| Anarchy | Exarchia | Marinaleda | Rojava | Zaachila | |||||||
| Titanomachy | Leto | Crius | Rhea | Theia | Atlas | Crete | |||||
| Bahaghari | Tu | Rangi | Papa | ||||||||