diff --git a/langchain/__init__.py b/langchain/__init__.py
index 86bf4f7ac0..a03ce60282 100644
--- a/langchain/__init__.py
+++ b/langchain/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 """Main entrypoint into package."""
 
+from importlib import metadata
 from typing import Optional
 
 from langchain.agents import MRKLChain, ReActChain, SelfAskWithSearchChain
@@ -53,6 +54,9 @@ from langchain.utilities.wikipedia import WikipediaAPIWrapper
 from langchain.utilities.wolfram_alpha import WolframAlphaAPIWrapper
 from langchain.vectorstores import FAISS, ElasticVectorSearch
 
+__version__ = metadata.version(__package__)
+del metadata  # optional, avoids polluting the results of dir(__package__)
+
 verbose: bool = False
 llm_cache: Optional[BaseCache] = None
 set_default_callback_manager()