diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2214847..4276385 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,18 +28,23 @@ except CountryDoesNotExist:
 
 ### Creating country class
 
-You can call create an instance of `pycountry_wrapper.Country` in three ways.
+You can call create an instance of `pycountry_wrapper.Country` in multiple slightly different ways.
 
-Using **ISO 3166-1** with either 2 or 3 letters:
+The [**ISO 3166-1**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1) standart can either use 2 or 3 letters (alpha_2 or alpha_3).
 
 ```python
 from pycountry_wrapper import Country
 
+# auto detects if alpha_2 or alpha_3
+Country("DE")
+Country("DEU")
+
+# you can specify what to use, if required.
 Country.from_alpha_2("DE")
-Country.from_alpha_2("DEU")
+Country.from_alpha_3("DEU")
 ```
 
-Or you can do a fuzzy search in a similar way:
+If you want to use fuzzy search, you will have to use `Country.from_fuzzy()`.
 
 ```python
 from pycountry_wrapper import Country
@@ -47,14 +52,6 @@ from pycountry_wrapper import Country
 Country.from_fuzzy("Deutschland")
 ```
 
-Or you can pass a pycountry object in the constructor:
-
-```python
-import pycountry
-from pycountry_wrapper import Country
-
-Country(pycountry.countries.get(alpha_2="DE"))
-```
 
 ### Accessing information
 
diff --git a/pycountry_wrapper/__init__.py b/pycountry_wrapper/__init__.py
index 69f084d..b94f331 100644
--- a/pycountry_wrapper/__init__.py
+++ b/pycountry_wrapper/__init__.py
@@ -15,7 +15,14 @@ class Country:
     If the country couldn't be found, it raises the pycountry_wrapper.CountryDoesNotExist exception.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, pycountry_object):
+    def __init__(self, country: str = None, pycountry_object = None):
+        if country is not None:
+            # auto detect if alpha_2 or alpha_3
+            if len(country) == 2:
+                pycountry_object = pycountry.countries.get(alpha_2=country.upper())
+            elif len(country) == 3:
+                pycountry_object = pycountry.countries.get(alpha_3=country.upper())
+
         if pycountry_object is None:
             raise CountryDoesNotExist()
 
@@ -23,15 +30,15 @@ class Country:
 
     @classmethod
     def from_alpha_2(cls, alpha_2: str) -> Country:
-        return cls(pycountry.countries.get(alpha_2=alpha_2.upper()))
+        return cls(pycountry_object=pycountry.countries.get(alpha_2=alpha_2.upper()))
     
     @classmethod
     def from_alpha_3(cls, alpha_3: str) -> Country:
-        return cls(pycountry.countries.get(alpha_3=alpha_3.upper()))   
+        return cls(pycountry_object=pycountry.countries.get(alpha_3=alpha_3.upper()))   
 
     @classmethod
     def from_fuzzy(cls, fuzzy: str) -> Country:
-        return cls(pycountry.countries.search_fuzzy(fuzzy))
+        return cls(pycountry_object=pycountry.countries.search_fuzzy(fuzzy))
 
     @property
     def name(self) -> str:
diff --git a/pycountry_wrapper/__main__.py b/pycountry_wrapper/__main__.py
index 3fc8dbe..c4002b5 100644
--- a/pycountry_wrapper/__main__.py
+++ b/pycountry_wrapper/__main__.py
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ from . import Country
 def cli():
     print(f"Running {__name__} version {__version__} from __main__.py")
 
-    print(Country.from_alpha_2("DE"))
+    print(Country("DEU"))