In fact, I have discovered that one of the finalists was similar to what I was suggesting. I like this better than their choice. I might make the shade of orange a tad darker and redder, closer to the images of Navajo sandstone above.
I quite like that one indeed, too. I suppose in the final choice someone as mentioned above went for the beehive=honeycomb=hexagon thing and that someone else figured that plain red would be easier to deal with.
ETA, since the link isn’t displaying the image, it’s the same as the new one, except the stylized mountains and Great Salt Lake behind the beehive are replaced by four triangles, the top one blue, the bottom red, and the two sides white, whose points converge at the golden beehive.
Technically, it’s a swallowtail pennant. Some time back, I got to wondering how many non-rectangular flags were in use among the countries and their 1st level subdivisions. Nepal is the only country with one, it being a combination of two triangles with different dimensions. Ohio was the only non-rect state/province flag I could find, but it’s possible I could have missed one.
Oh! Someone just has to do one of those “Quran Project” videos asking random folks on the street in the US about the different flags and seeing how many freak out about Islam being in the country.