diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4378fd8..00a1449 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -50,8 +50,10 @@ $ ColabCode()
 # - port: the port you want to run code-server on, default 10000
 # - password: password to protect your code server from being accessed by someone else. Note that there is no password by default!
 # - mount_drive: True or False to mount your Google Drive
+# - region: us(default) - United States, eu - Europe, ap - Asia/Pacific, au - Australia, sa - South America, jp - Japan, in - India
 
-$ ColabCode(port=10000, password="abhishek", mount_drive=True)
+
+$ ColabCode(port=10000, password="abhishek", mount_drive=True, region="in")
 ```
 ## How to use it?
 Colab starter notebook: [![Open In Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/assets/colab-badge.svg)](https://colab.research.google.com/github/abhishekkrthakur/colabcode/blob/master/colab_starter.ipynb)
diff --git a/colabcode/code.py b/colabcode/code.py
index 3df0dcc..240594a 100644
--- a/colabcode/code.py
+++ b/colabcode/code.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 import nest_asyncio
 import uvicorn
-from pyngrok import ngrok
+from pyngrok import ngrok, conf
 
 
 try:
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ def __init__(
         password=None,
         authtoken=None,
         mount_drive=False,
+        region="us",
         code=True,
         lab=False,
     ):
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.password = password
         self.authtoken = authtoken
         self._mount = mount_drive
+        self.region = region
         self._code = code
         self._lab = lab
         if self._lab:
@@ -60,6 +62,7 @@ def _install_extensions():
             subprocess.run(["code-server", "--install-extension", f"{ext}"])
 
     def _start_server(self):
+        conf.get_default().region = self.region
         if self.authtoken:
             ngrok.set_auth_token(self.authtoken)
         active_tunnels = ngrok.get_tunnels()