.kml

1 claimant 0 primary 1 secondary secondary-only

SWH popularity

From the SWH-MSR-ARV dataset (Desmazières, Di Cosmo, Lorentz, MSR 2025; file nb_extensions_alphanum.csv) — one row per (ext, year) in the full SWH archive. Case-aggregated. citation.

2.8M
total occurrences
705.5K
since 2019 (25.3%)
1970–2023
years active

Case variants in archive: .kml (2.7M), .KML (82.6K), .Kml (5) — aggregated above.

Attribution status

This extension is attributed to xml — every claim across all sources (including secondary ones) points to a single language.

Authoritative sources: △ Linguist · secondary ✗ Pygments · no claim ✗ Wikidata · no claim ✗ Wikipedia · no claim

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Claimants (1)

Languages that list .kml among their extensions. Strength reflects whether the upstream source treated it as their primary extension.
LanguageSourceStrength
xmllinguistsecondary

Wikidata says… (4)

File formats, image formats, audio codecs and other non-PL entities that claim .kml on Wikidata (property P1195) or in the Wikipedia infobox. Source: data/derived/external_extension_index.csv. Click Use as new PL on any row to open the Add-PL form pre-filled with that entry's name, Wikipedia/Wikidata URL, and this extension — one submission creates the PL + claim.
Right entry isn't listed? Add manually ↗
FormatClass (Wikidata P31)Suggested labelMIMENotesAction
Keyhole Markup Language Q79587
notation for expressing geographic annotation and visualization within Internet-based maps
file format; open file formatdata:xml-likeapplication/vnd.google-earth.kmz; application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xmlUse as new PL ↗
Google Earth network link Q105850901
file format
file formatUse as new PL ↗
Google Earth placemark Q105850671
file format
file formatUse as new PL ↗

SWH-mined examples (0)

No archived examples for .kml in our local mirror yet.

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