5 MB KML sample
A KML file of exactly 5,242,880 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 MB sample, test or dummy KML file.
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sample-kml-5mb.kml
5 MB5,242,880 bytes
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- Type
- application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml
- SHA-256
b0629bfda4d3a5b9748d5693987d48e9ce3d7d1923729b6ee674b5a40c218b45- Delivery
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What is in this file
A KML 2.2 document with a shared style and 22,341 placemarks, each a named point with a description. An XML comment before the closing tags brings the file to the exact size.
| Placemarks | 22,341 |
|---|---|
| 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-5mb.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 MB matters
A 5,242,880-byte file: the size of a phone photo and the minimum part size for S3 multipart uploads. These are the default limits a file of this size is useful for testing:
| System | Limit | Note |
|---|---|---|
| PHP | 2 MB per uploaded file by default (upload_max_filesize) | A 5 MB upload fails on an untuned PHP installation. |
| Vercel Functions | 4.5 MB request body | Larger uploads must go directly to object storage. |
| Amazon S3 multipart upload | 5 MiB minimum part size | This file is exactly one minimum part. |
| AWS Lambda | 6 MB synchronous invocation payload | 5 MB of binary data exceeds it once base64-encoded. |
| Browser localStorage | About 5 MB per origin | Storing this file as text fills the quota. |
| Django | 2.5 MB in memory by default | Larger uploads are streamed to a temporary file instead of held in memory. |
Use this file for
- Finding the first upload limit in a new stack
- Testing map imports and layer rendering
- Checking conversion between KML, GPX and GeoJSON
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-5mb.kml |
|---|---|
| Format | KML (Keyhole Markup Language) |
| Extension | .kml |
| MIME type | application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml |
| Size | 5,242,880 bytes (5 MB) |
| Kind | Text |
| SHA-256 | b0629bfda4d3a5b9748d5693987d48e9ce3d7d1923729b6ee674b5a40c218b45 |
| 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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Questions about this file
- Is this file exactly 5 MB?
- Yes. It is 5,242,880 bytes, which is 5 MB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
- What is inside the 5 MB KML file?
- A KML 2.2 document with a shared style and 22,341 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.