Pandas: Filtering and selecting a value

Question

I have a dataframe like this:

    Indicator        Value        Subregion    Territory  Year
0   Indic1        1115.000000    Southern Asia  Afghanistan  2009
1   Indic1         983.000000    Southern Asia  Afghanistan  2010
2   Indic2        1231.000000    Southern Asia  Afghanistan  2011
...

I want to get the Subregion of a certain row. I can select the row like this:

df.loc[(df['Territory'] == 'Afghanistan') & (df['Year'] == 2009)]

Which, as expected, results in:

       Indicator     Value      Subregion    Territory  Year
8       Indic1     1115.000000  Southern Asia  Afghanistan  2009

Now when I use

df.loc[(df['Territory'] == 'Afghanistan') & (df['Year'] == 2009)]['Subregion']

I would expect the result to be the string Southern Asia. However, what I get is :

13    Southern Asia
Name: Subregion, dtype: object

Why is that and how do I just get the string from this?