Linghai
Coordinates: 41 ° 8 ' N , 121 ° 15' E
The city of Linghai ( Chinese 凌海市 , Pinyin Línghǎi Shì ) is an independent city in the district-free city of Jinzhou in the southwest of Liaoning Province in the People's Republic of China . It has an area of 2,585.5 km² and has 533,000 inhabitants (2010).