1 KB KML sample file

A KML file of exactly 1,024 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 1 KB sample, test or dummy KML file.

sample-kml-1kb.kml

1 KB1,024 bytes

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Type: application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml
SHA-256: 6f5bc01a9e040024cc2ce86766a7a47c908b9a9a060fa0887f7cd388786d72c1
Direct URL: https://www.sampletestfiles.com/downloads/kml/sample-kml-1kb.kml

What is in this file

A Document of 2 placemarks around real cities, all of them points, and two shared styles. An XML comment before the closing tags brings the file to the exact size.

Placemarks	2
Geometry types	Point
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-1kb.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 (1 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">

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Where 1 KB matters

The smallest practical test file: 1,024 bytes, small enough to travel in a single network packet. These are the default limits a file of this size is useful for testing:

System	Limit	Note
Ethernet	1,500 bytes (typical MTU)	A 1 KB payload fits in one packet with its headers.
Browser cookies	4,096 bytes per cookie	1 KB is well inside the limit; the 5 KB sample is over it.

All 1 KB sample files

Use this file for

Smoke tests in CI that must run in milliseconds
Testing map imports and layer rendering
Checking conversion between KML, GPX and GeoJSON

Testing notes for KML

Longitude comes first. Reading the pair the other way round moves every point to a different part of the world.
Inside a position, a space after a comma is an error: the space is what separates one position from the next. Hand-edited files often break this rule.

KML format reference

Technical details

File name	sample-kml-1kb.kml
Format	KML (Keyhole Markup Language)
Extension	.kml
MIME type	application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml
Size	1,024 bytes (1 KB)
Kind	Text
SHA-256	6f5bc01a9e040024cc2ce86766a7a47c908b9a9a060fa0887f7cd388786d72c1
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-1kb.kml 'https://www.sampletestfiles.com/downloads/kml/sample-kml-1kb.kml'
sha256sum sample-kml-1kb.kml     # Linux
shasum -a 256 sample-kml-1kb.kml # macOS

On Windows, run Get-FileHash sample-kml-1kb.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 1 KB?: Yes. It is 1,024 bytes, which is 1 KB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
What is inside the 1 KB KML file?: A Document of 2 placemarks around real cities, all of them points, 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.

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