Answer:
The two lesser known Eurpean colonies in the New world are New Portugal and New France.
Explanation:
They were the two lesser know since they were able to colonize less territory than New Spain.
The following list indicates the Western Hemisphere territories that France and Portugal worked to control:
France:
New France (1604–1763)
Acadia (1604–1713)
Canada (1608–1763)
Louisiana (1699–1763, 1800–1803)
Newfoundland (1662–1713)
Île Royale (1713–1763)
French Guiana (1763–present)
French West Indies
Fort Lachine in New France, 1689
Saint-Domingue (1659–1804, now Haiti)
Tobago
Virgin Islands
France Antarctique (1555–1567)
Equinoctial France (1612–1615)
Portugal
Colonial Brazil (1500–1815) became a Kingdom, United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.
Terra do Labrador (1499/1500–?) Claimed region (sporadically settled).
Land of the Corte-Real, also known as Terra Nova dos Bacalhaus (Land of Codfish) – Terra Nova (Newfoundland) (1501–?) Claimed region (sporadically settled).
Portugal Cove-St. Philip's (1501–1696)
Nova Scotia (1519?–1520s?) Claimed region (sporadically settled).
Barbados (1536–1620)
Colonia do Sacramento (1680–1705/1714–1762/1763–1777 (1811–1817))
Cisplatina (1811–1822, now Uruguay)
French Guiana (1809–1817)
