About 85 % of the population is of European origin. Unlike most Latin American countries, Argentina has comparatively few persons of mixed European and Native American ancestry, although their number has increased in recent times. some 6,608,700 Europeans settled in the nation. Spanish and Italian immigrants have precontrolled, with remarkable numbers of French, British, German, Russian, Polish, Syrian, and other South American immigrants. More than one-third of the population lives in or around Buenos Aires; 90 % of the people live in urban areas.