What is the geoid?

While we often think of the earth as a sphere, our planet is actually very bumpy and irregular.
The radius at the equator is larger than at the poles due to the long-term effects of the earth's rotation.  And, at a smaller scale, there is topography—mountains have more mass than a valley and thus the pull of gravity is regionally stronger near mountains.

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