5 KB KML sample
A KML file of exactly 5,120 bytes. It is a valid Keyhole Markup Language file, generated by this site. Compare its checksum and test it with the parser used by your application. Use it wherever you need a 5 KB sample, test or dummy KML file.
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sample-kml-5kb.kml
5 KB5,120 bytes
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- Type
- application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml
- SHA-256
fab7852ec93a0b20398284a17fbf181ada77543cc2dcb512e42980c0bdfd2682- Delivery
- Created in your browser from static generator assets (how it works).
What is in this file
A KML 2.2 document with a shared style and 19 placemarks, each a named point with a description. An XML comment before the closing tags brings the file to the exact size.
| Placemarks | 19 |
|---|---|
| KML version | 2.2 |
| Geometry | Point |
| Network links | None |
| Encoding | UTF-8 (ASCII characters only) |
How the file begins
The opening lines of sample-kml-5kb.kml, exactly as they appear in the file.
00000000 3c 3f 78 6d 6c 20 76 65 72 73 69 6f 6e 3d 22 31 |<?xml version="1|
00000010 2e 30 22 20 65 6e 63 6f 64 69 6e 67 3d 22 55 54 |.0" encoding="UT|
00000020 46 2d 38 22 3f 3e 0a 3c 6b 6d 6c 20 78 6d 6c 6e |F-8"?>.<kml xmln|
00000030 73 3d 22 68 74 74 70 3a 2f 2f 77 77 77 2e 6f 70 |s="http://www.op|Preview
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Where 5 KB matters
A 5,120-byte file: larger than a cookie, smaller than a typical HTTP header limit. These are the default limits a file of this size is useful for testing:
| System | Limit | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Browser cookies | 4,096 bytes per cookie | 5 KB does not fit in one cookie. |
| Vite asset inlining | 4 KB by default (assetsInlineLimit) | A 5 KB asset is emitted as a separate file rather than inlined as base64. |
| nginx and Apache request headers | 8 KB per header line by default | 5 KB fits; the 10 KB sample does not. |
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.
Technical details
| File name | sample-kml-5kb.kml |
|---|---|
| Format | KML (Keyhole Markup Language) |
| Extension | .kml |
| MIME type | application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml |
| Size | 5,120 bytes (5 KB) |
| Kind | Text |
| SHA-256 | fab7852ec93a0b20398284a17fbf181ada77543cc2dcb512e42980c0bdfd2682 |
| Created | 2026-10-23 |
| Validation | See the listed size and SHA-256. Small downloads are checked in the browser; verify streamed downloads manually. A hash match does not prove parser compatibility. |
| Preview | Available on this page |
| Source | Generated in your browser by this site's generator; not copied from elsewhere |
| Licence | Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms) |
| Category | GIS |
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This file is created in your browser, so it has no direct URL for curl or wget. The generator is designed to produce reproducible bytes. After saving, compare the checksum with the SHA-256 value above.
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Questions about this file
- Is this file exactly 5 KB?
- Yes. It is 5,120 bytes, which is 5 KB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 5,120 bytes).
- What is inside the 5 KB KML file?
- A KML 2.2 document with a shared style and 19 placemarks, each a named point with a description. 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.