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Several planets are flattened at the poles.

That just means the distance between the poles is less than diameter of the planet at the equator.

Saturn is the most extreme example in our solar system, followed by Jupiter.

Even the Earth is slightly flattened at the poles.

Astronomers call this "oblateness".

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