The lowland Aborigines are made up of ten tribes, including the Ketagalan of Taipei, the Kavalan of Ilan, and the Taokas of the Hsinchu-Miaoli area. The Sirayans occupy, for the most part, the area made up by Tainan County, plus a swath extending down south to Pingtung.
居住在平原地區的平埔族，約有十族，例如台北的凱達格蘭族，宜蘭的噶瑪蘭族，竹苗地區的道卡斯族等，其中分佈以台南縣為主、南至屏東一帶的稱為西拉雅族。