10 KB KML sample file
A KML file of exactly 10,240 bytes. It is a valid Keyhole Markup Language file, generated for this site and checked with an independent parser. Use it wherever you need a 10 KB sample, test or dummy KML file.
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sample-kml-10kb.kml
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- Type
- application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml
- SHA-256
a02917acacdb216563e572a78dd8a4279dde2af8cbc435ae8b13d40d3d802cbc- Direct URL
https://www.sampletestfiles.com/downloads/kml/sample-kml-10kb.kml
What is in this file
A Document of 39 placemarks around real cities, mostly points, with a line string and a polygon in every ten, and two shared styles. An XML comment before the closing tags brings the file to the exact size.
| Placemarks | 39 |
|---|---|
| Geometry types | Point, LineString, Polygon |
| Coordinate order | Longitude, latitude, altitude (WGS 84) |
| Version | KML 2.2 |
| Encoding | UTF-8 (ASCII characters only) |
How the file begins
The opening lines of sample-kml-10kb.kml, exactly as they appear in the file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">
<Document>
<name>Sample KML file (10 KB)</name>
<description>Fictional places for testing map imports.</description>
<Style id="pin"><IconStyle><scale>1.1</scale></IconStyle></Style>
<Style id="outline"><LineStyle><color>ff0055d6</color><width>3</width></LineStyle><PolyStyle><color>4d0055d6</color></PolyStyle></Style>
<Placemark id="p1">
<name>Jaipur place 1</name>
<description>Category: team. Country: IN.</description>
<styleUrl>#pin</styleUrl>
<Point><coordinates>75.76522,26.98449,0</coordinates></Point>
</Placemark>
<Placemark id="p2">Preview
Shows the file contents.
Where 10 KB matters
A 10,240-byte file that still arrives in the first round trip of a new connection. These are the default limits a file of this size is useful for testing:
| System | Limit | Note |
|---|---|---|
| TCP initial congestion window | About 14.6 KB (10 segments) | A 10 KB response fits in the first flight of packets; the 25 KB sample does not. |
| nginx and Apache request headers | 8 KB per header line by default | Data this large must go in the request body. |
| webpack asset modules | 8 KB by default | Assets over the threshold are emitted as files instead of data URIs. |
Use this file for
- Checking thumbnail and icon handling
- Verifying coordinate-order handling
- Load-testing viewers with thousands of placemarks
Testing notes for KML
- KML can pull in remote content through network links and icon URLs. An importer should not fetch them blindly. The samples here refer to nothing outside the file.
- Longitude comes first. Reading the pair the other way round moves every point to a different part of the world.
Technical details
| File name | sample-kml-10kb.kml |
|---|---|
| Format | KML (Keyhole Markup Language) |
| Extension | .kml |
| MIME type | application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml |
| Size | 10,240 bytes (10 KB) |
| Kind | Text |
| SHA-256 | a02917acacdb216563e572a78dd8a4279dde2af8cbc435ae8b13d40d3d802cbc |
| Created | 2026-10-10 |
| Validation | Exact size, signature bytes and structure checked when the file was generated |
| Preview | Available on this page |
| Source | Generated for this site; not copied from elsewhere |
| Licence | Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms) |
| Category | GIS |
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Download from the command line and verify
Fetch the file with curl, then compare its checksum with the SHA-256 value above.
curl -o sample-kml-10kb.kml 'https://www.sampletestfiles.com/downloads/kml/sample-kml-10kb.kml'
sha256sum sample-kml-10kb.kml # Linux
shasum -a 256 sample-kml-10kb.kml # macOSOn Windows, run Get-FileHash sample-kml-10kb.kml -Algorithm SHA256 in PowerShell. A matching value proves that the download is complete and unaltered.
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Questions about this file
- Is this file exactly 10 KB?
- Yes. It is 10,240 bytes, which is 10 KB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
- What is inside the 10 KB KML file?
- A Document of 39 placemarks around real cities, mostly points, with a line string and a polygon in every ten, and two shared styles. An XML comment before the closing tags brings the file to the exact size.
- What do the KML samples contain?
- Placemarks near sixteen real cities on six continents: mostly points, with a path and a polygon in every ten, and two shared styles.