Question:  Lakewood Ranch is a master planned community in a country that has how many states ?
Context: Major League Football (MLFB) is a proposed professional American football league based in Lakewood Ranch, Florida; it currently consists of eight announced teams and all teams are league-owned.  Major League Football, Inc., is a publicly traded company.  In June 2016, eviction papers were served to the league for non-payment of rent beginning in March 2016 on its offices at the Lakewood Ranch facility.  There have been no official updates by the league since March 31, 2016. The Lakewood Ranch High School in Manatee County, Florida, United States, was opened in 1998 in Bradenton, Florida.  It is named after the housing development it borders, Lakewood Ranch. Remington Ranch is a master planned community located in unincorporated Harris County, Texas.  The development, with 2,100 single-family houses, is located between Interstate 45 and the Hardy Toll Road.  It is north of Greenspoint Mall and in proximity to George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Palmer Ranch is a massive real estate development in Sarasota County, Florida between the cities of Sarasota and Osprey.  Located very roughly by Clark Road, Tamiami Trail and Interstate 75, it was part of the original 80,000 acres (320 km²) of Florida land purchased by Bertha Honoré Palmer, wife of Chicago department store tycoon Potter Palmer, best known for the famed Palmer House hotel in Chicago.  It is one of many former Florida cattle ranches developed into planned communities; the other most notable ranch conversion in the Sarasota Bradenton area is Lakewood Ranch. Tustin Ranch is an upscale community located in the city of Tustin, California in Orange County, California.  The property is historically part of the Irvine Ranch, and was a land preserve up until the creation of the community.  The Irvine Company decided to build the master planned community in 1982, which was approved for construction in 1986 by the County of Orange.  It was annexed to the city of Tustin in 1986, and formed the 92782 ZIP Code.  The Tustin Ranch was formerly a citrus ranch prior to the 1980s before its development.  Today, you will find no citrus ranches on the Tustin Ranch plan, but almost all of the community streets are named after components of the former ranch. Forest Lake was the first Master Planned Community within the municipality of Brisbane, Queensland.  It has won numerous awards for its design and had a population of 20,900 residents, as of February 2006.  Delfin, the developer of Forest Lake, was absorbed into Lend Lease in 2001.  Now operating as Delfin Lend Lease, they are developing the adjacent Springfield Lakes Master Planned Community. Lakewood Ranch is a master planned community in southeastern Manatee County, Florida, United States, built on part of what was previously a timber ranch owned by members of Milwaukee's Uihlein family.  It is part of the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.  The population for the 34202 ZIP Code Tabulation Area, in which Lakewood Ranch is located, was 19,816 at the 2010 Census (a 29% increase over the population of 15,335 at the 2000 Census.) . Shadow Creek Ranch is a master planned community in Pearland, Texas, United States.  Shadow Creek Ranch, which has 3500 acre of space, is west of State Highway 288, south of Beltway 8, and about 10 mi from the Texas Medical Center. The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America ( ), is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.  Forty-eight states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico.  The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west.  The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean.  The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones.  The extremely diverse geography, climate and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries. The Santa Clarita Valley is part of the upper watershed of Santa Clara River in Southern California.  The valley was part of the 48,612 acre Rancho San Francisco Mexican land grant.  Located in Los Angeles County, its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita which includes the communities of Canyon Country, Newhall, Saugus, and Valencia.  Adjacent unincorporated communities include Castaic, Stevenson Ranch, Sunset Pointe, Tesoro, Val Verde, Westridge, and the new master planned community of Newhall Ranch.
Answer: 50 states