There are only two flags that are official and represent major entities, like a nation or a US state, that are non-rectilinear, that is, not a quadrilateral, not a rectangle.
I did find that a province of a small island nation is non-rectilinear, but I'll be damned if I could find it again.
The first is the nation of Nepal. Carved out of the Himalayas, touching both India and Tibet, Nepal has nearly thirty-million residents, which must be pretty dense, considering it's between Iowa and Illinois in terms of size.
The two triangles are special math triangles, the top a 30-60-90 edition and the bottom is an isosceles right triangle. In the top triangle is the symbol of the sun and the moon, and the bottom is the sun. The color scheme is used other times surrounding China--in the north Mongolia uses it, and in the south east both Lao and Cambodia use it. I believe that China itself used it before the revolution (see post about the canton).
Nepal size places it ahead of our next flag, that of Ohio, the only other major non-rectilinear flag. I always thought it looked pretty cool.
With almost twelve-million residents, Ohio has less than Nepal, but is still ranked 7th in the US, and 10th in population density.
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